Joseph Brodsky Quotes

I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm a '90s kid. I can't wait until the day when more people start appreciating the '90s.

Jermaine Fowler

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I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.

Max von Sydow

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I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.

John Lydon

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Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.

Sophia Amoruso

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I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

Trisha Goddard

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My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.

Roma Downey

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I fully support accountability and transparency.

Michael Tubbs

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You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

Lou Barlow

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When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.

Jose Andres

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I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect.

Debi Mazar

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I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Clint Eastwood

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