Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
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Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
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Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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He invented the job, the job of anchoring, did it himself for 40 years, and taught two generations of anchormen, including this one, how to do it. He's retiring, but he'll be with us in spirit, and he'll be a part of every broadcast we do.
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I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
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His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.
