Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." "... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
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I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
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I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
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As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
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The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.
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I do not honestly know what is really happening in Libya at the moment but it must be very hard for Gaddafi and his family.
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My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." "... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita.
