Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
Jack Nicholson -
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 -
It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle -
I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
Damian Loeb -
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
Hakeem Jeffries -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
Kate DiCamillo -
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 -
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 -
Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
Nandan Nilekani -
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 -
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 -
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
Larry Wall -
Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.
Bernard Sumner New Order
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House music is like going to church - it touches you. There's something really magical about it that pulls you in, and you just want to keep learning more about it.
Little Louie Vega -
I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.
George Bernard Shaw -
Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.
Chris Brown -
Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.
Angela Davis -
Man is what he reads.
Joseph Brodsky