Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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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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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 honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.
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My river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
