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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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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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'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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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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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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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 make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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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 paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.
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I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard and make friends. Those are my daily goals, and I feel like those are the things that create opportunity and creating connections that will then lead to other things that I may not have planned for otherwise.
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Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.
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That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.
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Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
