Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But I certainly will support the outcome of this election.
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You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.
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If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
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Integrated schools help students achieve academic success in the present and personal success in the future.
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I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
