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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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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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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One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.
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I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.
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If love is a drug, then it's the kind that should be prescribed.
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The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.
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Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.
