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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested time like no one else.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996

Topics

Time World Greatest Theft Like Else

I don't have girlfriends, because it's not fair, the same as I don't have plants because I'd never be back to water them, and I don't have cats and dogs, and I don't have kids, because I'd never be there to see them.

Water Cats Plants Back Never See

I'm the eldest of four children: a brother next after me and then two sisters.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Children Brother Me Two Next Four

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

Andrew Garfield

Love Impossible Story Someone You

You don't brag about putting someone in hospital. It's absolutely horrible.

Someone You Hospital Horrible About

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

Young Jazz Kid Always Ability Taste

You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.

Win You Back Behind Still Nine

I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.

Work Time More Outside Watching

As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which you realize, 'Well, I'm not really on the implementation or execution side - I'm not on the battlefield. I'm an operations person who's overseeing multiple units that are out on the ground doing the job.'

Job Doing You Person Execution Out

I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal, I'd go out and have my dinner and nobody would be video-phoning me eating my dinner.

People Me Dinner Eating You I Can

I really prayed and asked God for my first film.

Anthony Hemingway

God First Film Really Asked Prayed

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

Truth Nothing Over Hurry Up Stumble

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.

Happiness Time Moment Happy Game

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