Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
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You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.
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I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
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I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.
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I'm sick of dour faces Staring at me from the T.V. Tower. I want roses in my garden bower; dig?
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I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.
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It's the confidence that says if I'm open shoot the basketball. I've been making shots my whole career. I can't turn down an open shot. I'm sorry, I can't do it. If I'm open, and a guy's 30 feet away from me, I've got to let it go.
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I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.
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Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
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This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.
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We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
