Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
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At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.
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There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
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I'm meeting with Adrian Lyne and Catherine Zeta- Jones to do a reading of some of the scenes and hopefully we can get that picture made.
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I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
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The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
