Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
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I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.
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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
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In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.
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I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.
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I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
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A goal without a pan is just a wish.
