Joseph Brodsky Quotes
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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Good drink... good meat... good God, let's eat!
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My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.
