Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Everything is real on me.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits under the current system
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I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.
