Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
Ingmar Bergman -
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
G. H. Hardy -
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom -
I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
Cam Newton -
I'm a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.
Rafael dos Anjos -
My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
Jack Prelutsky
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Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.
Jeff Bridges -
I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.
Chris Isaak -
When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.
Douglas Coupland -
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
Mariel Hemingway
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Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'
Britt Robertson -
We want to generate jobs in the U.S.
Dennis Muilenburg -
My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.
Jill Scott -
I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.
Kelly Osbourne -
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
Emmet Fox -
We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.
Walter de La Mare
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I really find that when I get on an airplane, I never drink anything but water, and I drink a ton of it. I like to sit in the window, but I'm always climbing over people to go to the bathroom. I'm that seatmate. But ya gotta do it. All about the water.
Elizabeth Banks -
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.
B. Traven -
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Vladimir Nabokov