Joseph Brodsky Quotes
It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
Joseph Brodsky
Quotes to Explore
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
Orison Swett Marden
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
E. Stanley Jones
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
Samuel E. Morison
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
Gary Speed
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
Natalie Cole
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
Ted Cruz
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
Nate Powell
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There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
Oliver Kahn
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There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ignatius of Antioch
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
Malin Akerman
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I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
Samantha Power
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I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
Mark Kurlansky
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What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I'm coming from.
Kathleen Anne Brien
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TV and more TV. It looks like something out of an old movie," Sam said. “Forty, fifty years ago, they were always dragging out the TV screens when they wanted to show what the glorious future would look like. As if the future was just going to be more TV.”
“And, as it turned out, it is,” Rosa said.
Pat Cadigan
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Consultancy can be too short; or too long.
Gerald Weinberg
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I’ve been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who’s inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and I’ve had his book by my bed looking at how he interprets landscapes – mountains and water and flowers and birds.
Renee O'Connor
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It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
Joseph Brodsky
