Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.
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I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
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There needs to be fiscal common sense.
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True art lies in a reality that is felt.
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If there's ever a vote for single-payer, I'm a 'yes.' But there are lots of things we can do in the meantime.
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Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
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To live is to be slowly born.
