Joseph Brodsky Quotes

In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

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• I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Seen

• Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Personality
  • Medical
  • Autism

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • Star
  • Box

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Health

• We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Dating
  • September
  • January

• Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Ignorant

• My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Great
  • Know
  • Dad

• I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

  

  Jack Black
  • Good
  • Music
  • Rock

• We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Free
  • Moral

• If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Successful
  • Drug
  • Year

• What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Moments
  • Reflection
  • Pure

• With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Up
  • Character
  • You

• Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Faith
  • End
  • Understand

• And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Order
  • Now
  • Events

• Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Me

• I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Childhood

• Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Learning

• A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Pain
  • Spiritual
  • Hurt

• When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Lawyer

• West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.

  

  Jeri Ryan
  • Gay
  • Shopping
  • Boyfriend

• Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • World
  • Stupid

• Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Feelings
  • Answers
  • Shame

• In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

  

  Joseph Brodsky