Joseph Brodsky Quotes

In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have to love either the spirit of the laws or the economic opportunities, or the - well, history of the country, the language perhaps, literature.

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• I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Girl
  • Die
  • Movies

• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Light
  • Show
  • Darkness

• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • School
  • Wish

• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ideas
  • Bed
  • Communism

• I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Insecure

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Interesting
  • Company
  • Canada

• I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Goodness

• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Great
  • Day
  • Burden

• Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Things
  • Popular
  • Moment

• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Makes

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Gold

• The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Nothing
  • Triumph

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • She
  • Think
  • Beauty

• I remember my first time coming to New York City. It was 1986, and I was on a U.S. tour with a stop at Lincoln Center. It was love at first sight.

  

  Jan Vogler
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Stop

• When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • Control

• Back then, in 1968, everything was suspect - family, government, and obviously the family unit in 'Night of the Living Dead' completely collapses. That's what we were focused on.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Family
  • Night

• There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Me

• The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Country
  • Gun

• In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have to love either the spirit of the laws or the economic opportunities, or the - well, history of the country, the language perhaps, literature.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Different
  • Live
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