Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the premiere, but I'll close my eyes during the scarier scenes.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
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'Everything is art. Everything is politics.'
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When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'
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To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
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What did everyone think robot vacuuming was going to be? Well, they think Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons,' a human robot that pushed a vacuum. That was never going to happen.
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There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.
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I think 'Never Land' is, like, my first really strong attempt to create music... that can encourage people who share my faith but also challenge and intrigue people who don't.
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I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.
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Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
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But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
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When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
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Respect for one’s government and the expected obligations of citizenship have limits (though as a modern Western reader I am probably overly inclined to emphasize this qualification). Paul cooperated with the Jerusalem church’s identification with their culture (which was also his culture, Acts 21:20–26), but not to the extent of honoring such nationalism above his commitment to the Gentile mission (Acts 22:21–22). When Christians are more loyal to our ethnicity or nation than to Christ’s body, when nationalism or racism corrupts our love for fellow believers, we have gone beyond giving Caesar what is Caesar’s to giving Caesar what is God’s.
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And the rest is rust and stardust.
