Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
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Yet in my lineaments they traceSome features of my father's face.
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You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
