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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry Place Entertainment Crime Who

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

Support Party Will Never Up Would

On social media, I can hide behind the computer or the iPhone. Internet courage.

Courage Social Media Internet Media

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

Beautiful Imagination Person She Her

I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids.

Melissa Joan Hart

Think Problem Nothing Kids I Think

Mosquito control in the United States is very much a local and state activity. Some states have excellent programs, other states not so much. It's one of the reasons it's so urgent to identify and spread best practices to try and track and reduce mosquito populations.

Best Control Try Spread Activity

Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well.

Good Women Sports Gold American Run

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Heart Speak Tongue Your Thinks

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.

Courtney A. Kemp

Women Character Experience Man Play

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Funny Simple Fat

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Think American Early Cinema True

I love how small the world is.

Sharon Van Etten

Love World Small How I Love

Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me.

Sebastian Thrun

Love Car Day Fun People Me

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