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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Daily History Ethics Prison Sense

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

Work You Say Why Try May

I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society.

John Mellencamp

Change Society Think Back Go See

I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

Amanda Righetti

Hope Best Plan You Go Done

I can feel a cold coming on right now, so I am going to start using collodial silver again.

I Am Start Cold Feel I Can Silver

You have to challenge yourself about the choices you make as an artist.

Challenge Yourself Choices You Make

The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

Funny Dog Best Walk Birds World

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Funny Obsession Get Cure Another

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Michel Foucault

Age Knowledge Power Free Will Cost

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

God Time Woman Me Thought Giving

Mexico doesn't know whether it should pay more attention to those who advocate militarizing the border or to those - like President Obama - who have come out against it.

Border Attention Know President More

Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

Time Day Long You Place Leave

I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!

Time Police Long Long Time Just

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