Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight -
Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
Kate Christensen -
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
Adam Brody -
I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin -
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
Tate Donovan -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
Eddie Trunk -
Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
Kate Christensen -
D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
Wanda Sykes -
When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
Malala Yousafzai -
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos -
We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
Harrison Ford
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
Ed Royce -
I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
Laura Linney -
Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
Laura Benanti -
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
B. B. King -
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
Aasif Mandvi -
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Vaclav Havel
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Her own grief grieved her. His devastated her. (On Sophie Mol's death, describing Mamachi's grief, and Chacko's).
Arundhati Roy -
Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.
Pramila Jayapal -
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I've always enjoyed things a little more chaotic than most people would prefer. I feel that I run well in chaos.
Chrissy Teigen -
You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
Don Rickles -
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery