Joseph Brodsky Quotes
I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.
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If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
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Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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Little known fact about me...do you know the first words I ever spoke were Bobby Orr ...thanks to my hockey fanatic grandfather saying his name over and over and over to me until I eventually repeated it.
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I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.
