Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Enjoy life, it has an expiration date.
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I think it is all a matter of love.
