Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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I have no idea why, but I find that men make more of an impact on me in films than women - even very beautiful ones.
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If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.
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Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been saying for years, 'You have got to stop the out of control federal spending, or you will end up at this point.' We're there.
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The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
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Time can be an enemy or a friend.
