Agatha Christie Quotes
'It makes her rather alarming,' I said. 'Sincerity has that effect,' said Miss Marple.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
Patrick deWitt
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Hamilton Jordan
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
Imelda Marcos
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
Zubin Mehta
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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For so long, I've been a little misunderstood as a person. You know, I do have this strut about me. I don't know if it's the Jersey girl in me. I like to think of myself as an egg, you know? Hard on the outside but soft on the inside.
Carli Lloyd
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
Jack Ma
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Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
Nat Friedman
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph W. Sockman
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Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, 'God is infinite?' If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.
Baron d'Holbach
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I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.
Tania Raymonde
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It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
Naveen Jain
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.
Dan Gable
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I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.
Daniel Baldwin
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
O. Henry
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What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
Walt Disney
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There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago.
Jose Garces
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In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.
Gerry Spence
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I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.
Tim Robbins
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Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
Christopher Durang
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'It makes her rather alarming,' I said. 'Sincerity has that effect,' said Miss Marple.
Agatha Christie