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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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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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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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
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I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.
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I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.
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Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it.
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I believe - and so do most Puerto Ricans - that the ideas that will prevail in the new century will be those similar to the basic principles of commonwealth, of national reaffirmation, and political and economic integration among the peoples of the world.
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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.
