Joseph Brodsky Quotes

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveManAttentionPersonWhyTry

Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

John Mica

ChoicesExpectationsFridayYearNew

I had to really create a positive atmosphere for myself, and that has to come from within.

Rose Namajunas

PositiveMyselfCreateWithinCome

Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change.

Ruth Porat

ChangeTechnologyYouNeedLeads

I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is and let yourself fall.

Luke Kirby

LoveYourselfLove IsBelieveYou

It is time for President Obama to admit that - in this new age of peer-to-peer terror - we need a real strategy to combat radicalization at home and destroy extremist safe havens abroad.

Michael McCaul

HomeAgeTimeStrategyAdmitNew

Despite everything I've been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Cleveland Browns stuck their neck out and risked taking me and put their faith and belief in me, and I won't let them down.

Josh Gordon

FaithMeDownBeliefKidEverything

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

Janis Ian

KingWorldProblemsThinkThought

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

Douglas Trumbull

LightColorNowKindMoreGate

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Christopher Hitchens

LifeGoodSufferingMy LifeWish

We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

Chris Wedge

GoodYourselfCompetitionWorryYou

I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.

Christina Milian

TimeSingingActingFirstAlways

I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling.

Allison Tolman

HappyPeopleMeFriendlyHumbling

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