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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After the first death, there is no other.
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Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.
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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.
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I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.
