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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Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.
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You have to believe in yourself. You have to go out there and love what you are and who you know you are in terms of your craft.
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All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
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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.
