Joseph Brodsky Quotes
I simply think that water is the image of time, and every New Year's Eve, in somewhat pagan fashion, I try to find myself near water, preferably near a sea or an ocean, to watch the emergence of a new helping, a new cupful of time from it.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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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've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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I love owning my masters.
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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Anybody who works with me knows this: I always repeat wardrobe in my characters. We're trying to play real people.
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I left my frogs, which I had grown, with my supervisor, who had moved to Geneva, and he and a technician grew them up. So by 1962, they were adults, and one could publish a paper to say that these animals, derived from nuclear transfer, really were absolutely normal. So it took a little time to get through.
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There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
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What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.
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I simply think that water is the image of time, and every New Year's Eve, in somewhat pagan fashion, I try to find myself near water, preferably near a sea or an ocean, to watch the emergence of a new helping, a new cupful of time from it.
