Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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My health is fine.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
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I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.
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I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.
