Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
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I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.
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We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
