Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
Maajid Nawaz -
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport -
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
Zadie Smith -
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
Kat Graham -
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
Patrick Stewart -
Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
Yayoi Kusama -
I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
Francesca Annis -
I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
Victoria Justice
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Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
Vicente Fox -
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
Anton Zaslavski -
Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.
Calvin Johnson -
The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
Indra Nooyi
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Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson -
You only grow when you are alone.
Paul Newman -
Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
B. B. King -
I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.
Emma Watson -
Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.
Vladimir Nabokov