Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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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.
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I'm a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.
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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.
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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.
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While he was climbing the litter-strewn steps his left ball gave a sharp twinge, on and off like a light-switch, then again after he had sat down. Nothing. Just one of the aches and pains that come and go. No significance.
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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.
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I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'
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We want to generate jobs in the U.S.
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Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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I'm on the verge of taking a stand.
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I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.
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See the nigger fly the airplane!
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
