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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We will never appear on stage again. There is simply no motivation to re-group. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were. Young, exuburent, full of energy and ambition.
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.
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A picture is poem without words.
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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
