Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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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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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.
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I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.
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You don't want to wear any styles that are too young... I try to still dress glamorously, but not like my daughters.
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What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
