Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
Earl Monroe
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
Harold Ramis
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
Aaron Spelling
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Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.
Valentina Zelyaeva
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
Gabrielle Union
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I'm curvy.
Camila Alves
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
Saint Ambrose
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
Ed Gillespie
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
Orhan Pamuk
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
Sai Baba
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
P. J. O'Rourke
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
Samuel Hopkins
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
Rajiv Ouseph
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
Nat Friedman
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Maimonides
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
Kate Christensen
