Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

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• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Kind
  • Purpose
  • Lie

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Message

• There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kind
  • Growth
  • Something

• I'm kind of a reluctant guru.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Kind
  • Guru
  • Reluctant

• Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Better
  • Horse
  • Genius

• I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Why
  • High
  • Kind

• She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Daughter

• A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Horse
  • Fly

• You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Kind
  • Television
  • Week

• J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.

  

  T. J. Miller
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  • He
  • Morgan

• It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Focus
  • Tough
  • Butterfly

• Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • House
  • Kind
  • White

• I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Lead

• Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain things are kind of normal. I think kids out there can be tested in a way where his right of passage ties into a bit of violence and how that has become these markers in masculinity and you being kind of validated after having to pass through things.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Kind

• Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Kind
  • Road
  • Yellow

• How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Kind
  • Adversity

• The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Space

• I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Candy

• People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Learning
  • Joy

• I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Goal
  • Lawyer
  • Doctor

• Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Just the other day, I was having lunch with my mom, and she said, 'You've taught me so much. You are so resilient.'

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Time
  • She
  • Career

• There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Law

• He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Kind
  • Horse
  • Grace