Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

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• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fashion

• Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Good
  • Want
  • Nice

• When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Bad
  • High

• The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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  • Want
  • Finding

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.

  

  Carlene Carter
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  • Sometimes
  • Guns

• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
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  • Results
  • Got

• Competition is good and has served us well.

  

  Harold H. Greene
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  • Competition
  • Well

• Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Anxiety
  • Publicity

• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  

  Orson Welles
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  • Artist
  • Wrong

• Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.

  

  Valerie June
  • Good
  • Start
  • Name

• I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
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  • Bad
  • Think

• Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Good
  • Men
  • Never

• I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

  

  Sadie Jones
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  • Love
  • Study

• Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

  

  Quincy Jones
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  • Single

• No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Good
  • Different
  • Why

• I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Justice
  • Use

• In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.

  

  Woody Shaw
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Style

• During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.

  

  B. J. Daniels
  • Work
  • Me
  • Thought

• I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

  

  James Nachtwey
  • People
  • Service
  • Photography

• I saw Nichelle Nichols in 'Truck Turner,' and she was so good.

  

  Kym Whitley
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  • She
  • Truck

• Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
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