Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.
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As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.
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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
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I don't think in any language. I think in images.
