Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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There are certain guys in the league that get their rhythm off their dribble.
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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I just wrapped this movie called 'The Wedding Crashers' which was a pretty big break for me.
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One is always at home in one's past.
