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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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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Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.
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When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
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We don't know who John Brown was, and in many ways, his work shaped where we are today. He was a Pennsylvanian. He was the prototypical Yankee who fought back and suffered in doing so.
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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One belongs to one's language as a writer.
