Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
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After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
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God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
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Aretha Franklin was tough. She turned out to be good, but she was, you know, she was - she's a very - she's a very wonderful, but in some ways, shy woman. You don't think about that when you see how she emotes and performs.
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When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.
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I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
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In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.
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Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway.'
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I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
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There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life.
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Your path lies across the stars.
