Agatha Christie Quotes
I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: 'I do not know...'
Quotes to Explore
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.
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Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!
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Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.
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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
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Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
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Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.
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Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.
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I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: 'I do not know...'
