Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
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I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.
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The system isn't working for most people and never has worked for most women.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
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Any dispute in matters of taste usually results in a standoff.
