Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
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Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
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I was a huge fan of monster movies.
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I was pushing him, ... I have to say that. I don?t know that I had any influence in Davis? choice to play here.
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Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.
