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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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
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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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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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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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Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.
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After 'Peepshow,' I really don't know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.
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For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
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I think there is a price to being alone, and there is a price to being in a relationship. It all depends on which price you want to pay - but none of them are free.
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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.
