Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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I love everyone that supports me, and things can get wild at times, but my parents raised me to be grounded and to always remain humble. I think that's one of the main reasons that my fans support me.
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Can clearly say Vegemite is horrible! Like tryin' new stuff though.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.
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I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
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Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]
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Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz
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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.
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The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
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I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.
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The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.
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I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.
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A good laugh is the best pesticide.
