Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
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Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.
