Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
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Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st century, too. But it won't happen without sustained pressure on politicians from electorates.
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The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
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Tiffin, what
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I still fall for your everyday.
