Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.
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Of all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
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Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
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Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a better one.
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Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
