Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The Governor's Office is going to get out of the litigation business.
Doug Ducey
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I'm really excited to share cabaret, the art form, not just with the generations that are above me, but also my generation and the generation under me. I think it's an art form that's incredibly important, and I think that my generation is a little unfamiliar with it.
Annaleigh Ashford
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At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.
Anna Kournikova
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Say you can't put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you're not flexible at all. We'll show you some aikido, some ground jujitsu, some gun stuff, some knife moves. We can make a pretty good-size dent with that.
Chad Stahelski
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People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Polly Toynbee
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At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.
John Hagel III
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As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.
Emily James Smith Putnam
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Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.
Brandon Mull
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I think I've always sort of been on the more boyish spectrum of girls. For example, I've never been chosen as 'one of the top-five hottest actresses in a bikini.' And honestly, it's a godsend. When I was younger, I'd think, 'Oh, I'm the prettiest one. It's not Halle Berry. It's not!' But it is, you know?
Julia Roberts
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The town of GUILDFORD, which (taken with its environs) I, who have seen so many, many towns, think the prettiest, and, taken all together, the most agreeable and most happy-looking, that I ever saw in my life.
William Cobbett
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What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.
Wolfgang Pauli
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The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.
Vladimir Nabokov