Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.

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• The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.

  

  Adam Braun
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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
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• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
  • School
  • Home
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• Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • World
  • America
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• I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
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• If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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  • Inside

• I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Work
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• If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • Education
  • Duty
  • Bear

• My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Mind
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• The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Reality
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  • Learning

• The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Small
  • Rights
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• I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  

  Paget Brewster
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• A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Kids
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• The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

  

  J. M. Roberts
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  • Church
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• I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Today
  • Look
  • Too Much

• Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Way
  • Literature
  • Common

• Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Great
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  • Ghost

• My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

  

  William Bartram
  • Nature
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  • Elegance

• We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write feature films, and Lev Tolstoy and Fedor Dostoyevsky would write television series because there are some stories you just can't tell in two hours.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • Writing
  • Film
  • Hours

• If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.

  

  Wahb ibn Munabbih
  • Praise
  • Essence
  • Criticize

• The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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