Joseph Brodsky Quotes
Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.
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The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
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The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.
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I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job outside the home. I had bold notions sometime in my childhood that I wanted to be veterinarian... I wasn't sure I'd ever do it.
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Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
