Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
Patricia Hewitt -
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
Maddie Ziegler -
Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
Zach Galifianakis -
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
Foster Friess -
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
Olivia Munn -
Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
Wanda Sykes -
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah -
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla -
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
Harold Nicholas -
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
Barber Conable -
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
Samaire Armstrong -
The Department of Energy is a critical component of our efforts to curtail climate change; that work will be less effective unless we collaboratively rebuild confidence in the agency and its programs.
Kate Brown
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We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
Carrie Fisher -
We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.
Nalini Singh -
After the Lincoln Hotel people showed their colors by demanding payment, we turned our back on them. We moved out.
Allan Sherman -
The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
H. L. Mencken -
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
Vladimir Nabokov