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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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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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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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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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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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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By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
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It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.
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The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.
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Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.
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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.
