Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.
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I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.
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I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
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The enemy is radical Islam. You can't get around it. And not only will I name the enemy, I will do whatever it takes to defend America from these haters of mankind.
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If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
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The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.
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Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
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I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.
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Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.
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I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.
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I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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Most of my friends are male. Men are more fun.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.
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Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.
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The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
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I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.
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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
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I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.
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The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.
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The future is but the obsolete in reverse.
