Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.
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I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.
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Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.
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I hope they never have to go through the kind of soul searching that I am going through.
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But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now ”
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The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.
