Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria -
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White The White Stripes -
My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I wasn't a ladies' man.
Kapil Dev -
I won't join another band again.
Jack White The White Stripes
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Salman Rushdie -
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
Gail Carson Levine -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
Walter Salles -
I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
Vincent Cassel -
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
Nadine Velazquez -
The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
Bashar al-Assad -
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
Gary Shteyngart -
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
Raekwon
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I take the bull by the horns and make a plan and go for it.
Kim Hawthorne -
It's been interesting for me because when I served in government before, I served in the White House. This time, I ended up serving in an agency, and it just made me respect and admire how much happens and that happens every day with people who don't even know all the work that's going on.
Cheryl Mills -
After 'Oz,' I've learned how to check out and not let that stuff get in.
Kathryn Erbe -
Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses - and just as in states like Texas that have 'tough on crime' reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety.
Ken Cuccinelli -
I feel I'm probably the luckiest guy on the planet to lead Accenture.
Pierre Nanterme -
I confess, I do not believe in time.
Vladimir Nabokov