Joseph Brodsky Quotes
I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
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Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
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We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.
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There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished.
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I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.
