Joseph Brodsky Quotes
I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.
Quotes to Explore
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
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Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.
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I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
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Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.
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I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.
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Look at what happened in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast when Katrina hit. People ask me whether they thought race was the reason the response was so slow. I say, 'well, no, this administration was colorblind in its incompetence.' But, everyone here knows that the disaster and the poverty happened long before the hurricane hit.
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There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
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[Being judge] is about being honest and giving everybody a fair shot and telling them what you think. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it isn't. It's more important to be honest than say things to make people feel better. I don't think you have to be rude, but I think you have to be honest. But I think it's really important to be specific: Here's what you did that was great and why. And here's what you did that wasn't great and why.
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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
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Our customer is the person whose household income is under $100,000, which is the majority of Americans. We created Acorns from the ground up to serve their best interests. We started with micro-investing, which allows them to invest their spare change. Once they get more engaged they can set recurring investments - $5 a day, $5 a week, for instance - whatever works for them.
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I paint. I love the visual arts.
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I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.
