Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

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• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
  • Become
  • Reputation

• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.

  

  Usher
  • You
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  • Know

• The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Theater
  • Delight
  • Shock

• Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

  

  Jack Germond
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  • Politics
  • Television

• I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Trump
  • Ask

• I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Friends
  • Song

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Way

• For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

  

  Fernando Alonso
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  • Sport
  • Maximum

• It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Funny
  • Dance

• Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Free
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  • Old

• There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Labor

• Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Want
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• What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

  

  Calvin Trillin
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• That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • You
  • Way
  • Realize

• 'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Work
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  • Working

• I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Dance

• It is entertainment; we mustn't forget that. Dance is entertainment. You can have the best technicians in the world, but they'll be boring to watch. It has to be about entertainment as well, but it's quality, grace.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • World
  • Quality
  • Dance

• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Night
  • Worry
  • Wind

• A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Friends
  • Loved
  • Accept

• In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Judge
  • Humor

• If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Way
  • Dance
  • Hopefully