Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. Forster -
I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
Warren Spector -
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
Ted Cruz -
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.
Fiona Shaw -
As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
Karine Vanasse
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
Warren Buffett -
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.
J. J. Abrams -
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.
Vince Vaughn -
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.
Raekwon -
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.
Adam Mansbach -
GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
Jack Dangermond
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Francine Pascal -
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.
Sam Harris -
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Wayne Dyer -
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
Karen Horney -
Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.
Karen Armstrong -
MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.
Jack McDevitt
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As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.
James Gleick -
You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
Daniel Woodrell -
I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.
Ian MacKaye -
There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.
Jesse Livermore -
I don't think in any language. I think in images.
Vladimir Nabokov