Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
Aaron Klug
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
Karen Salmansohn
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What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
Mahershala Ali
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I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.
Victoria Osteen
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
Rachel Nichols
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The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
Natalie Cole
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
Kaley Cuoco
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People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
Carl Hiaasen
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My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
Jackie Chan
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I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.
Tananarive Due
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It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.
Karen Gillan
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
Eudora Welty
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No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
Van Wyck Brooks
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The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.
L. Fletcher Prouty
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You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
Stephen Covey
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Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.
William Morris
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The square root of I is I.
Vladimir Nabokov
