Joseph Brodsky Quotes
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I want to be known as A.J. Styles, the WWE Superstar that he is, and have amazing matches, make memories - I think that's the goal.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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No country would suffer more than Britain from an international trade war, since we depend more on world trade than any of our competitors. That is why we cannot accept the proposal made in some quarters that we should seek to solve our problems through imposing import controls for a long period over a whole range of manufactured consumer goods.
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You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.
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Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
