Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
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For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
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Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
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Politics is everywhere. It’s in your shirt, it’s in your pants. It’s everywhere.
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Do you know why I'm thin? Because I'm hungry ALL the time!
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A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.
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You're waiting for something good to happen to get going, but it's a catch-22. You've got to do something to get yourself going.
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One belongs to one's language as a writer.
