Joseph Brodsky Quotes
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
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Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.
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I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.
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Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.
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Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
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Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.
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I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.
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I would love to stay at one position.
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An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
