Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.
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A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.
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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
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But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
