Joseph Brodsky Quotes

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

Joseph Brodsky

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• It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Human
  • Impossible
  • View

• When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

  

  Tacitus
  • Woman
  • Chastity

• I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Person
  • Thought
  • Expression

• 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.

  

  Warren Christie
  • Think
  • Best
  • See

• I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Love
  • Place
  • Cowboy

• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• I don't fear anything now.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Fear
  • Now
  • Anything

• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Happy

• My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Enjoy Life

• To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Why
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Different
  • Family
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Power
  • Political
  • Agenda

• I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Children
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • You
  • Me

• Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Research
  • Ignored
  • Proposing

• We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Future
  • Society

• Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Acting
  • Suits
  • Perfectly

• Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Moving

• If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Men
  • Lord

• I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everything to revolve around the entertainment business. Yes, that's my career, but it's not my life.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.

  

  David Zucker
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Cutting

• We do a lot of great things, but it's a competitive league. A lot of great guys around us do the work and help us elevate our game, and that's what makes the NFL so special. We have a lot of competitive players who are the best in the world at what they do, and they all compete against each other.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

  

  Joseph Brodsky