Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.
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ArcGIS includes a Living Atlas of the World. It's like a large living library of geographic information.
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Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
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For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.
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The institution of marriage is obsolete
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Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
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It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
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Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.
