Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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• Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • History
  • Story
  • First

• I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Never Forget

• I'm down for adventure and up for anything.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Up
  • Adventure
  • Down

• You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

  

  Ian McShane
  • Why
  • She
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• The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Friend
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Done
  • Learning
  • I Can

• Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Listen
  • Open-minded

• Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly – not what you expect in a western.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Death
  • Scene
  • Myth

• It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Need
  • Show

• The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Real
  • Destiny
  • Role

• What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Community
  • Neighborhoods

• Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Character
  • Person
  • Illusion

• Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • World
  • School
  • Help

• Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Children

• To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Week
  • Relations
  • Begin

• I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Leaving

• Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Life
  • Drink
  • Authenticity

• I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.

  

  Ella Baker
  • World
  • May
  • Giving

• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Nobody

• I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Felt

• I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Drink
  • Bread
  • Fishes