Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
Ramon Rodriguez -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban -
I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
Edmund Phelps -
I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
Oprah Winfrey
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What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.
Jack Keane -
I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
D. B. Sweeney -
The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
Wayne Dyer -
You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
Sam Heughan -
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
Baltasar Kormakur
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I can cure AIDS, and I will.
Yahya Jammeh -
September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
Lamar Alexander -
For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
Patrick Ness -
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
Ralph Allen -
My family is always my priority.
J. R. Smith -
I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
Oren Peli
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When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
Antonio Porchia -
whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.
Merrill Markoe -
It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
R. J. Cutler -
What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?
Albert Pinkham Ryder -
Nothing can be achieved without knowledge and yet everything can be achieved just through a pure heart.
Haidakhan Babaji -
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Vladimir Nabokov