Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.
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Regardless of the response from the Jewish person, we remain friends in support of the State of Israel as required by scripture.
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In the beginning was the Word.In the end...past honor, past life, past caring...In the end will be the Word.
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Their conduct leads one to believe that they truly imagine that happiness lasts forever in this temporary, precarious life.
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People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
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Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.
