Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I love what I do.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.
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'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can’t have potholes, they can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.
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The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
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I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.
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There is nobody who doesn't deserve to walk into their local church and have others look them in the eye and understand that we are all in the same position. We are all sinful, flawed, selfish, imperfect people - saved only by the grace of God and the love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Modeling is really silent acting.
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Sanitation is more important than Independence.
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Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
