Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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I want to be a major force.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.
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With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.
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Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.
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By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.
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I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.
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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
