Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
Kaskade
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Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
Vijender Singh
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
J. Carter Brown
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
R. Kelly
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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Irvin S. Cobb
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Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.
Laura Wilkinson
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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Don Marquis
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce
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We need to step up because our past generations did their jobs; we now need to do ours.
Burgess Owens
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I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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The U.S.-E.U. partnership is indispensable to ensuring a Europe whole, free, and at peace.
Jeanne Shaheen
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The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.
Daniel Kahneman
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Everything will be all right. I know this room. Soldiers used to be quartered here. Now it's our turn.
Nur Muhammad Taraki
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This is the most ancient of doctrines and is believed in now by more human minds than the number of those who do not hold it. The millions in the East almost all accept it; it was taught by the Greeks; a large number of the Chinese now believe it as their forefathers did before them; the Jews thought it was true, and it has not disappeared from their religion; and Jesus, who is called the founder of Christianity, also believed and taught it. In the early Christian church it was known and taught, and the very best of the fathers of the church believed and promulgated it.
William Quan Judge
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Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at the nape of her neck again, and a strand had slipped loose onto her shoulder, gleaming in the lantern light. Suddenly all of his objections seemed meaningless. Don't, he thought. You'll regret it. He didn't care anymore. Slowly, unable to stop himself, he reached out and cupped his hand around her foot.
L.A. Weatherly
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Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.
Dan Morgenstern
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The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
Paul Johnson
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Words without experience are meaningless.
Vladimir Nabokov
