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.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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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.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.
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Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name.
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I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me. It's a challenge to get inside these people's heads and wonder why they would have these beliefs.
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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.
