Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
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I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.
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I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.
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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.
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Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.
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When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
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They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.
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We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.
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My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me into bed so vigorously that I never felt anything less than comforted, and then afterwards, she would sit on a cane basket box next to my bed and read Hans Christian Andersen to me.
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I would love to be an Avenger or Wonder Woman. Pretty much any woman who can kick ass and take names, I am down! I have also always wanted to be a sultry mermaid or a bad ass fairy.
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Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.
