Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
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Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.
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Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
