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.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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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.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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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.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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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.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
