Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.Vladimir Nabokov
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus -
I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
Aaron Schock -
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
Wade Boggs -
In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
Nadia Comaneci -
Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.
Randall L. Stephenson -
It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.
Samaire Armstrong
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I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
Young Thug -
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Abraham Clark -
There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
Nathan Lane -
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
Iain McGilchrist -
I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
Vince McMahon
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We want you to pay attention.
Quavo Migos -
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
Umberto Eco -
In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
Victoria Wood -
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
J. Cole -
In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.
Zachary Taylor -
My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
Becky G
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I love Donald Glover.
Kenya Barris -
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
Ansel Adams -
A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
Omari Hardwick -
One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.
Michael O'Leary -
For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
Laura Esquivel -
I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
Vladimir Nabokov