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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BET, I'll never, never, ever forget them for this wonderful blessing they gave to me, to be on the 10th annual BET awards for my comeback.
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Every day, there is a person following me, taking pictures. It's bizarre because I'm just going to the gym or getting a smoothie. I don't have the time or energy to be constantly put together all the time, but that's real life.
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Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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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.
