Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
Kate Winslet
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
Kari Wuhrer
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Imre Kertesz
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
Jack Ma
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
Rachel Miner
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
Tariq Ali
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
Pat Buchanan
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
Ed Asner
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
Ian Anderson
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
Paddy Ashdown
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
Babyface
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I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes.
Ingmar Bergman
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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
William Arthur Ward
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If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.
Donald Rumsfeld
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What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to, or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?
Jodi Picoult
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The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
Heraclitus
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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
Joseph Brodsky
