Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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. . .building is medicine for free.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
