Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J Mascis -
Social revolutions are never simple.
Yair Lapid -
Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
Bartlett Sher -
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
Idris Elba
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
I can do whatever I want.
Karl Lagerfeld -
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
Gary Zukav -
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
Adam Gopnik -
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
Paige VanZant
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper -
Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
Kacey Musgraves -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness -
We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
Bebe Rexha -
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
Patrick O'Brian -
I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I made hats until I went into the Army. I was drafted during the Korean War.
Bill Cunningham The Box Tops -
Being a World Cup winner was a dream come true.
Ali Krieger -
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.
Janet Napolitano -
You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.
Ai Weiwei -
The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.
Dan Hill -
Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
Vladimir Nabokov