Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.
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I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters - you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.
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I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.
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This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
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On stage you never watch yourself. You just experience it, and then you go home, and you feel pretty good if you gave a pretty good performance or crappy if you didn't. But in TV and film, you actually have to experience it while you're doing it, and then you have to watch it. And then when you're watching it, you watch it with a different sensibility than how you experienced it.
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Man is what he reads.
