Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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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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Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.
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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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Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.
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The magic happens when you take facts and figures, features and benefits, decks and PowerPoints - relatively soulless information - and embed them in the telling of a purposeful story. Your 'tell' renders an experience to your audience, making the information inside the story memorable, resonant and actionable.
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In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.
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Any dispute in matters of taste usually results in a standoff.
