Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
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  • Drawing

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

  

  Zach Wamp
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• Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.

  

  Obie Trice
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• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
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• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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  • Economics

• The main thing is to know something and to say it.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.

  

  Tamar Braxton
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• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
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  • Women

• If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

  

  Banks
  • Music
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  • Me

• Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

  

  Parker Posey
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• You know in the West they support realistic forces.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
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• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
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  • Freedom

• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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  • Building

• We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Listen

• The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

  

  Phillip Noyce
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• If the creators of cartoons are intentionally or unintentionally giving children the idea that gay people are part of the big, happy human family, that's a good thing, not a bad one.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
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  • Children

• If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

  

  Patina Miller
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  • Sister

• A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• Only the children know what they are looking for.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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