Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
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In Haiti, it - people seemed - in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn't seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels.
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Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
