Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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A lot of times, people say, 'You're so much like Loretta or Tammy Wynette.' But I feel kind of like one of the men. I'm like David Allan Coe. I've been to prison, man!
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I love men. But evil men? I will not tolerate that. You don't deserve to be in my presence. If you're going to rule this world, I am not going to contribute anymore until you change it.
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When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
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I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
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My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?
