Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.
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Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.
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When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.
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Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
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I remember being in the same position as Ruby, when I no longer believed in God as I was raised to believe. But I still am a believer - it's a personality trait, to be someone who can believe. But then what do you believe in?
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Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.
