Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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I take photos, I used to make films, I journal incessantly, and I really value the documentation of life. Because it's almost like you are making something special by wanting to make it exist in an object - on paper or even just in the computer - making these recordings, making this music.
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Liberty is the most important thing.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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The prognosis is grim. Between 2000 and 2050, world population will grow by more than three billion to over nine billion people, but this 50 percent increase in global population will come entirely in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as one hundred million people of European stock vanish from the earth.
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We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.
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When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world.
