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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Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
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More always means worse.
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Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.
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This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad, are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder.
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In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.
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Man is what he reads.
