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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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.
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I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.
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Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
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When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very different way of looking at the world and experiencing the world. But later in your 30s, when you have children, a career, career obstacles, mortgages, car payments and relationships, you have to negotiate; that's a very different life.
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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.
