Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.
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I have a son, and my son has autism. There's certain things that I deal with that a lot of people don't deal with.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
