Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
Gary Oldman -
You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
Magnus Scheving -
The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
Victoria Abril -
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
Iris Apfel -
Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
Kate Ashfield -
The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
T. D. Jakes -
I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
Sam Mendes -
I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
Rachel Brosnahan -
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Omar N. Bradley -
I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.
Flula Borg
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
Bat for Lashes -
I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.
Laura Esquivel -
Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
Gary Hamel -
Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
T. S. Eliot -
To act is to rest.
Fernando Pessoa -
When the world turns completely upside down You say we’ll emigrate to the Eastern Shore Aboard a river-boat from Baltimore; We’ll live among wild peach trees, miles from town, You’ll wear a coonskin cap, and I a gown Homespun, dyed butternut’s dark gold color. Lost, like your lotus-eating ancestor, We’ll swim in milk and honey till we drown.
Elinor Wylie
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A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.
Lao Tzu -
That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
Joel Edgerton -
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn -
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery