Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I've read a lot of Terry Pratchett's stuff, probably from when I was, like, 14.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
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The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.
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Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
