Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
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Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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Personally, I know how challenging it can be to find free time in today's uber-busy, espresso-chugging world to tend to our spirits, to nourish our souls.
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You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.
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Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
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When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
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Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?
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According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
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Having contacts with Russian ambassador or with Russian representatives in this or that field does not mean interference in Americans' affairs - domestic affairs.
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A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
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My mother was very involved with me. And we had a dialogue constantly. And it was like an umbilical cord. As long as the words were flowing back and forth we were connected and feeding each other. And I probably grew up very afraid of losing that connection.
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You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'
