Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.
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I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.
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I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel.
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Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.
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Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.
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I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
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I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.
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My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.
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We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.
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There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.
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Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.
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The Republican ticket in 2012 was Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Whatever again you think of them, that's not a dumbed-down ticket.
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If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.
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There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.
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It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.
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Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
