Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken -
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore -
There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
Kate Winslet -
I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
Quincy Jones
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
Vanessa Paradis -
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie -
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch -
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
Tara Brach -
My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
Oprah Winfrey
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
G. Gordon Liddy -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
Imogen Heap
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
Jackie Robinson -
Let us see what love can do.
William Penn -
There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.
Tyler Cowen -
Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
William Shakespeare -
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov