Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
“What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
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Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
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You're not going to get off the couch and be at some amazing fast pace or burn crazy amounts of calories, but you have to start somewhere... Eventually, you'll get there.
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I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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“What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it.
