Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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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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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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You can stroke people with words.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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I lost my confidence.
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
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Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible.
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Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
