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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If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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I never try and sound like Sabbath.
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Every time I dance, it's a tremendous blessing, and I just can't forget that.
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I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market.
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Time can be an enemy or a friend.
