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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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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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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Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
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If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
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In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.
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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.
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You're girls!' he shouted as if the fact had totally eluded him until then.
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One belongs to one's language as a writer.
