Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
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I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
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For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.
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One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
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He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
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Gold and Economic Freedom 1966
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I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.
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Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
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You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
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The biggest organ in your body is your skin, and it's a permeable membrane. Anything you put on it goes into you. If you can't pronounce most of the words on the back of the bottle, it's probably not good for you.
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
