Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
Vladimir Nabokov
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
Malcolm X
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
Daniel Craig
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
F. E. Smith
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Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.
Andrew Solomon
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I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
Allen Iverson
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Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.
H. Beam Piper
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To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.
Barack Obama
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When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.
Jon Bon Jovi
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
Richard Feynman
