Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.
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Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.
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Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
