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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I'm excited to join the Mountain Dew snowboarding team.
Red Gerard
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It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star
Bill Vaughan
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Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.
William McIlvanney
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
Michel Foucault
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Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.
Bradley Denton
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Words without experience are meaningless.
Vladimir Nabokov
