Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

  

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• I really hate to write.

  

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• I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.

  

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• People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

  

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• First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.

  

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• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.

  

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• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

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  • Writing
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• In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
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• I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
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• In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

  

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• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  

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• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  

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• As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

  

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• Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

  

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• I love dressing up.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.

  

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• “I love old things. Modern things are so cold. I need things that have lived.”

  

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• I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.

  

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• Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!

  

  William Shatner
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• The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • God
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• I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Things
  • Tyranny
  • My Mind