Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
Vagit Alekperov -
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White -
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
Daniel Alarcon -
We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
Tamzin Merchant -
The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
Sachin Bansal
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
Karen Thompson Walker -
I came up with a story and I wrote it.
E. L. James -
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
Yoko Ono -
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
Balaji S. Srinivasan -
The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
Paris Hilton
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
Basmah bint Saud -
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
Sam Harris -
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
Barbara Amiel -
Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
Rachel Bloom -
I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten.
Jason Boyd -
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.
Hayden Schlossberg -
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
Abraham Verghese -
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
Laurie Anderson -
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov