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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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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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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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Ueberhaupt aber bin ich allmälig der Meinung geworden, daß der erwähnte Nutzen der Kathederphilosophie von dem Nachtheil überwogen werde, den die Philosophie als Profession der Philosophie als freier Wahrheitsforschung, oder die Philosophie im Auftrage der Regierung der Philosophie im Auftrage der Natur und der Menschheit bringt.
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The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.
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We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
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I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.
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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.
