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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Critical evaluation was transformed into understanding, and criticism became not an act of judgment but of comprehension.
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We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.
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The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.
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Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
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I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
