Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
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A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.
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Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.
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I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
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I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
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The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.
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We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.
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With wealth comes responsibility.
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I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
