Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
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For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.
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[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.
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Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.
