Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
Jack Nicholson
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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.
Carl Sagan
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It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
Damian Loeb
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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.
Gavin Newsom
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
Hakeem Jeffries
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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.
Gary Jennings
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk
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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.
Gary Shteyngart
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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.
Gavin Newsom
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
Kate DiCamillo
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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.
Victor LaValle
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The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.
Victor Koo
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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?'
Tamsin Greig
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
Nandan Nilekani
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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.
Camille Paglia
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
Larry Wall
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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.
William Shakespeare
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More always means worse.
Kingsley Amis
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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.
Patrick Marber
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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.
Chuck Hagel
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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.
Jose Mourinho
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Man is what he reads.
Joseph Brodsky