Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.Vladimir Nabokov
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
Aaron Eckhart -
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
Ted Nugent -
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess -
I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
Hal Boyle -
I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
Victoria Justice -
A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
There's no sex in Middle Earth.
Ian Mckellen -
Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
Kate Hudson
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
Victoria Justice -
I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
Taylor Hicks -
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
Valentina Tereshkova -
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian -
I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.
David Carradine -
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
Edwin Arnold -
The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.
Andrew Harvey -
Worry makes people thin, except when they worry about being fat.
Evan Esar -
I've always been self-motivated, but I can't take a ton of credit for any success I've had.
Peter Billingsley -
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.
Vladimir Nabokov