Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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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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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Feminists might identify with me because I'm unapologetic in what they think is a male-dominated world … no, I guess, what is a male-dominated world.
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A trooper fights for honor ... or from loyalty. Or for loot sometimes. But he waits for pay. He will not wait without it, because when there is no fighting there is no honor to win, no flag to die for, no loot to gain.
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A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
