Joseph Brodsky Quotes
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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Midi is my hobby.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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Metaphysics is a science.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
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Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.
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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
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I have gone back to some things that can't possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always a tackling.
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They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
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As a comedian, you have everything working against you.
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I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
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Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game. Likewise, fitness isn't defined by the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world.
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We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!
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Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.
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What do you want to do with the Communist Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never use it for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.
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I learned a lot about a traumatic situation and what it does to you. It really brings you closer to your family and your loved ones.
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A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
