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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He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
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Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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RIKEN has attracted numerous outstanding scientists from inside and outside Japan, and these people have achieved creative and outstanding results.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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An active and creative reader is a re-reader.
