Agatha Christie Quotes
'I like to see an angry Englishman,' said Poirot. 'They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.'
Quotes to Explore
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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To survive is to win.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
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As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10.
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As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.
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I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.
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'I like to see an angry Englishman,' said Poirot. 'They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.'
