Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy.
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
