Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
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Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
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I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.
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It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.
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I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood...people don't think about the importance of it.
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He had lots of power-play time and it wasn't going for him. Maybe he was pressing, maybe the time away left some edge off his game and he might be ready to try again.
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On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.
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I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.