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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Ah, Mein Kampf is a Magna Charta.
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If they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.
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The same transactions are not always entered in the same category for receiving and paying country.
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Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.
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I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain 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.
