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 have understood you!
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Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.
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There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
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Even as Instagram defines our visual moment, we use the app's filters to travel backwards in time, to make our images resemble the Polaroids of yore by casting them literally in a different, more nostalgic light.
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He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon him took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely.
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Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
