Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  

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• Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

  

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• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

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• The French complain of everything, and always.

  

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• Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

  

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• For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

  

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• Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

  

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• Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

  

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• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

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• I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

  

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• That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

  

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• There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

  

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• There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

  

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• If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

  

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• You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

  

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• The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.

  

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• We should be firing bad teachers.

  

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• The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

  

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• I went into boxing, and I'm bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible.

  

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• I realized sometime in the early '80s that if I didn't do something - like planning for the future in a way, a kind of pension or something - that if I didn't do something there and then, I was going to be condemned to forever present my three years as a pop star, condensed, as a stage act for the rest of my life. Because that's normally what happens to people in the pop business.

  

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• The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

  

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• I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Party
  • Kind
  • Communist