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'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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One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.
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When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And there's then a kind of self-consciousness about telling a story in which you suffered.
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I think my goal is not even with celebrities. I love celebrities, but my goal is to walk down the street and just see people wearing my stuff - that is the goal!
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.
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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
