Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.
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I started doing stand-up in college.
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I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
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It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.
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If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.
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People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.
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Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
