Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

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• Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

  

  Mae West
  • More
  • Often
  • Shocked

• We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Music
  • Opportunity

• Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Problems

• No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Alone
  • Dance
  • End

• I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Style
  • Intimidating
  • Demanding

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Money
  • You
  • Responsibility

• In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Know
  • Capitalism
  • Last

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Fun
  • Help
  • Gift

• It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Motivational
  • Decisions

• My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

  

  Gary Hume
  • She
  • Always
  • Poetry

• Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Important
  • Political
  • Team

• Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • World
  • Me
  • Loved

• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Proud
  • Take
  • Lessons

• I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Job
  • Myself
  • Never

• People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Food
  • Day
  • Everyday

• When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Age
  • Design

• A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Car
  • Gun

• In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Power
  • True

• You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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