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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'Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.'
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I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
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One belongs to one's language as a writer.
