Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
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If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.
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What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.
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People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative absurdity - that has completely detached from its intended object. It's left reality behind long ago. It's like something out of William Burroughs.
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Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop it. If hoaxes like this go unchecked, who can believe anything they see on the Internet? What good would the Internet be then? If the people who control Internet web sites do not do anything, is that not an open invitation for government to step in? And does anybody want politicians to control what can go on the Internet?
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It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.
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An active and creative reader is a re-reader.
