Joseph Brodsky Quotes
Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.

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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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Most women don't do regular breast self examinations, mainly because they are either intimidated by what they might find, or they're confused as to how to do the self exam correctly. 'Liv Aid' eliminates all of these concerns because it makes breast self exams easy to perform.
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We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.
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Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
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When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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In the long run, competitiveness derives from an ability to build, at lower cost and more speedily than competitors, the core competencies that spawn unanticipated products.
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I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.
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Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution.
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I don’t know why one can’t chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue.
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I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.
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The Lord's authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
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I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.
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Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
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Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.