Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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I don't believe in murder.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.
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The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.
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Free Tibet before free trade.
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.
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I can't be left unsupervised.
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I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
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I can't stand it when men are snarky.
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I am no parasite.
