Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.
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If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know?
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The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
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I write the best book that I can write each time.
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I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.
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No God without a world, and no world without God.
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While we don't have the authority on the state level to change federal policy, my fellow governors and I do have a duty to protect our states' citizens, and we have a personal responsibility to act when we have the power to do so.
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Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.
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The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.
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Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
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I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.
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There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.
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I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.
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For the attainment of knowledge satisfaction is useful and satisfaction is not gained by increasing information but by decreasing it.
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Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
