Joseph Brodsky Quotes
Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.
Quotes to Explore
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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There is no truly global justice.
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I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
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Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.
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It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
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Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.
