Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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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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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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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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.
Yahoo Serious
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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.
Vincent Cassel
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
Olivia Colman
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My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.
Steve Martin
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Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.
Edmund Spenser
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I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.
Vladimir Nabokov