Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
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I always root for the defense.
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I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.
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Seek the seeker.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!
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Those who are outside the centres of power, because of the need for a positive and not simply a stable identity, are likely to find an independent identity appealing.
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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No hables mal de tus males a nadie, que hay culpas de tus males en todos.
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Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
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Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.
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I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
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You know, I’ve been home now for 24 hours. I must’ve been asked 9,000 times about that incident, we don’t have it [the footage], but I want to talk about it. Figure it out: Here’s a guy who gets eight stitches, eight stitches in his chin. What happened? Who did it? Nobody knows, ok? Nobody knows, ok, so here’s what happens. The referee calls the guy over and he says ‘Did you see what happened?’, ‘Whoaa, not my side’ ‘Did you see what happened?’ ‘Well wait a minute if I tell you, that means five-minute major.’ If the linesman says five-minute major...
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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
