Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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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.
Ferdinand Marcos
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
Nancy Gibbs
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. Kelly
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But search the land of living men,Where wilt thou find their like again?
Walter Scott
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Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
Arthur C. Clarke
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
Victor Garber
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The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego's hat off and leaving it at the door, then they can dive deep within themselves and we can pull out something interesting that people have never heard before. It's the stuff that's - that no one's ever heard before is really interesting.
Pharrell Williams
N.E.R.D.
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I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.
Lisa Graff
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I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.
Vladimir Nabokov
