Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

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• I never really learned photography.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Never
  • Photography
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• It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Small

• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• My eye is ever on those who love me.

  

  Sai Baba
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• A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Job
  • Rest

• Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

  

  Kanye West
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• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • You
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• The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Golf

• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Spirit
  • Vote
  • Suffrage

• The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Opportunities

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
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• There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just listen to that every day, because the album feels like, if it were a film, it would be black and white. It feels like there's a war percolating throughout the album itself. It's dark, and it has a nice forward pace to it.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• As weird as it is it to see yourself on screen, it made everything we've been through seem very real. And, well, London is only weeks away now.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

  

  Tananarive Due
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  • Black
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• I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

  

  P. L. Travers
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• I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
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  • Windsor
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• I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • History
  • Budget

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Player
  • Environment
  • Consequences

• Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• I just don't like to dwell on stuff.

  

  Joe Torre

• Acting feels different. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it used to mean a lot more. Maybe that sounds like I'm throwing it away and I'm not, I'll still do the best damn job I can, but it doesn't mean the same thing. I'm going to get the answer for myself one of these days. It's the male menopause, that's what it is.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Different
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• I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

  

  Kathy Acker
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• Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • Die
  • Things
  • Permanence

• How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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