Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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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.
Saina Nehwal
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I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
Ralph Abernathy
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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.
Nancy Duarte
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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.
Barbara Kruger
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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?
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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I think that I appeal to the girliness in all of us.
Anna Sui
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Noch einmahl sattelt mir den Hippogryfen, ihr Musen,Zum Ritt ins alte romantische Land!
Christoph Martin Wieland
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
Malin Akerman
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
S. Jay Olshansky
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Citium Zeno
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We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
Vladimir Nabokov