Joseph Brodsky Quotes
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
Joseph Brodsky
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
Zac Brown Band
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
Rachael Harris
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
Ferdinand Marcos
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
Yancy Butler
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
Jack Antonoff
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India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It’s not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.
Kapil Dev
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'And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.'
C. S. Lewis
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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
P. G. Wodehouse
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To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law-to be linked with the vast outside-to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate-surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!
H. P. Lovecraft
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If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Ludwig von Mises
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Albert Einstein
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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
Johan Huizinga
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In one life only had the fighting, the healing, the teaching, the praying, and the suffering held equal and perfect place, and that life could never on earth be lived again. For some dying men, he thought, there would have been comfort in the old belief that a soul comes back to earth again and again, the fighter returning to pray and the teacher to heal. Once he had half believed that himself, but now he could not. Once only had the perfect life been focused in a human body. He had not returned. Why should we? The Word now taught and healed, fought and suffered, through the yielded wills of other men.
Elizabeth Goudge
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With Jay-Z, it's hard not to be amazing.
Ne-Yo
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The political groups who have taken the responsibility to elect Mr. Macron have been discredited.
Marine Le Pen
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My advice for an aspiring astronaut is to really follow your passion. I mean, study something that interests you, but also qualifies you to apply. NASA recruits from a wide variety of backgrounds. I know people who have applied to be an astronaut who ask me, well should I do this or should I do that. And I said, you know, it doesn't matter. The basic requirements are you have to be in good health, and you have to have a good heart, I mean in a technical way, not to be a kind person, well that helps. Study something that you like and do well in it.
Leroy Chiao
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A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
Joseph Brodsky
