Agatha Christie Quotes
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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There's something healing about tears.
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People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.
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I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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I read a lot of detective novels.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
