Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.

Vladimir Nabokov

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  D'Arcy Carden
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• You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

  

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• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  

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• In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

  

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• I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

  

  Ja Rule
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• I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'

  

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• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

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  • Think
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• I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
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• Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
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• The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
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• People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'

  

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  • People
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• There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Religion
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• Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Society
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• Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

  

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• I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.

  

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• The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

  

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• Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions.

  

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• The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.

  

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• It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.

  

  Mother Teresa
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• Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.

  

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• As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Animal
  • Inspiration
  • Poor