Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.
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Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China.
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I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
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I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
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Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
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Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.
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A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.
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Dancing is my obsession. My life.
