Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
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All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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I could have made $2bn or $3bn - and ended up with some very cruel addiction - but I chose to be a civil rights warrior instead.
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The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
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All great comedians make me laugh, but people make me laugh more.
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
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It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.
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I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.
