Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.
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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
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My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.
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You practice how you play. I still believe that.
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I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.
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For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
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I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.
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I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.
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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
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Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.
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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.
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Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.
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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
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My goal is to continue to act and still be a professional kiteboarder.
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Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.
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Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.
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With almost no time to decide, they your loved ones gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.
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What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.
