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.Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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.
Adam Grant -
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.
Saint Ambrose -
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Rachel Platten -
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
Hans Bender -
I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
Valeria Golino
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A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
T. Berry Brazelton -
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.
Faran Tahir -
Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
F. W. de Klerk -
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.
Ulrich Beck -
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
Maimonides -
One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
Adam Cohen
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I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
Calvin Klein -
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.
Dana Brunetti -
One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
E. M. Forster -
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
Eckhart Tolle -
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.
Cormac McCarthy -
Gold and Economic Freedom 1966
Alan Greenspan
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For me, if a company is really committed to diversity, that means everything. That means gender diversity, that means sexual orientation for me, that means race, ethnicity.
Kimberly Bryant -
Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople -
Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.
J. G. Holland -
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.
Jane Austen -
When you don’t need anything anymore, the only thing you need is stories, and songs, and beauty, and spectacle. That’s the good stuff. The stuff that reminds us who we are.
Catherynne M. Valente -
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.
Mikhail Baryshnikov