Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
G. Gordon Liddy
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
Halima Aden
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
Edmund Hillary
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
Oksana Baiul
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
Imogen Heap
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I have never believed that the historian should seek to perpetuate the misapprehensions of the past, and it is true that we understand Beethoven today better than his contemporaries did, better, above all, than the generation that immediately followed him, including his own most important pupil, Karl Czerny.
Charles Rosen
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Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
H. R. McMaster
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
Bebe Neuwirth
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov
