Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
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I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.
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Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.
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Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.
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I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.
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Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, it’s a failure. You need to be surprised if you want it to be magical.
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But then the Nazis arrested Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi too. They spent six weeks in prison. To get out, they gave the Nazis everything they possessed: real estate, bank accounts, bonds, dishes, silver. Then they left immediately, heading east. Russia swallowed them. My mother waited and prayed for word of them, but none came.
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I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.
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Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
