Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell -
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
Wanda Sykes -
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Harrison Birtwistle -
The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
Earl Weaver -
If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
Victoria Pratt
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I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
Pat Paulsen -
I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
Dana Schutz -
I've been surfing several times, and I'm terrible at it. But what I found was that you're usually waiting on the board, hanging out, watching the waves come in. And one that you think is a big wave is not actually one.
Andy Grammer -
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan -
I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.
Sia LSD -
I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.
Dasha Zhukova
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There's so many things running through your mind. If you can formulate a game plan that works for you and allows you to block outside distractions and get to what matters, that's how the talent is able to come out.
Jake Arrieta -
If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.
Patton Oswalt -
In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
Avi -
Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?
Lesley Ann Warren -
When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.
Jillian Michaels -
Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer of the heart is preferable to one read from a book, however beautiful it may be, if read with the lips rather than with the thought.
Allan Kardec
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It is clear that the one who is in front in the championship gets support from the one who is behind, as soon as the second lost every chance. But that will not happen. I am sure I can get close enough to Michael and there will never be such a big gap for this to happen. Sometimes he will win races, sometimes I will.
Gerhard Berger -
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
Jonathan Dee -
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.
Christina Aguilera -
Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.
Vladimir Nabokov