Maksim Chmerkovskiy Quotes
I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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God does arithmetic.
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I try to practice mindfulness at all times, including the times where I'm nervous and I'm stressed.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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With Venus and Serena and their ascension - and you had a lot of kids that saw them and wanted to be like them - it's like any sport, any major athlete, like Michael Jordan in basketball: everybody wanted to be like Mike.
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Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.
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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
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I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.
