Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
Jackee Harry
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I was given the opportunity to run a business, but on that very same day, I understood that it comes with a lot of responsibility, and responsibility comes at a price.
Ofra Strauss
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Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
Magnus Carlsen
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I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.
Adam Carolla
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Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.
Patrick Whitesell
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I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
Pat Summitt
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Sam Mendes
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I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.
Kat Graham
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
E. Joseph Cossman
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I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.
B. B. King
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
Q-Tip
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When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
Chuck Lorre
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The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.
John Edwards
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I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways[.] That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.
John Roy Anderson
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When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'
Tamsin Greig
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If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
Bruce Dickinson
Iron Maiden
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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
