Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
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Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.
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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
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I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.
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And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.
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The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.
