Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

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• I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

  

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• The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

  

  Tanith Lee
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• If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

  

  Ted Nugent
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• What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
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• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
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• I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.

  

  Becky G
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• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
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• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  

  LaToya London
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• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
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• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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• Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

  

  F. E. Smith
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• I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

  

  M.I.A.
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• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

  

  Barbara Park
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• I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings of our citizens.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
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• The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.

  

  Michael Arrington
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• Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

  

  Vito Fossella
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• To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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