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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People send me fanmail in the post, and I keep every letter, and I always say I will read every single one. It might take me years and years, but I'll do it. Your audience are what makes you, so you have give as much back as you can.
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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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Set the cart before the horse.
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When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is. Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature.
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I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.
