Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I love to write.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
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It's beyond shameful this House can pass trillions of dollars in tax breaks for those with the most security but not see it to provide its way, see its way to provide health insurance for the children most in need.
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If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead - and I'd much rather be alive.
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Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.
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I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.
