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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry People Choice Serious Buy

Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge.

Good Think Hunting Will Boston Get

We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Sun People Moon Up Persuade Deliver

Personally speaking, when everything is boiled down to the marrow, I think the reason Reddit tolerates the creepy forums has to do with money more than anything else.

Money Think Down More Reason Than

People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

People Talking Know Make Judgments

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

You Now Hollywood Committee See

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

Justice Peace People World Stability

I've earned every single thing that I've got.

Single Earned Got Every Thing

You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good.

Work Good Character Moment Direction

I like staying home at night and just watching TV and playing with my two puppies. I really do love the simple things.

Love Home Simple Night Simple Things

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

Best Powerful Transparency Done Few

Certainly my parents were very political, so the whole Berlin Wall thing - and being a kid of the '80s - that's just something that's in your experience.

Experience Parents Political Wall

I've always approached my career and my life, you know, one day at a time, as if this was the last day that I'm going, because you never know as an athlete and as a dancer. You never know what can happen today, tomorrow.

Life Today Time Day Tomorrow You

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