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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A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
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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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I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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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.
