Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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Satiation may spill over outside the specific task to structurally similar tasks) and may end up in an early exhaustion of the occupational will.
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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
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It's really hard to do this life - to be a human being alone.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
