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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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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Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night - just don't try to take pictures of the women working in the windows.
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Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.
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All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.
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When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.
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I think people have an appetite for VR at $200, $300, $400. It's something so new and improves so quickly, people do have an appetite to buy that. If people are getting a new VR headset every two or three years that's incredibly improved, you want to go do that.
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
