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.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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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?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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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.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• The muses visit when I'm lonely.

  

  Taylor Hicks
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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.

  

  Nancy Lublin
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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.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Around
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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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Power
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• I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

  

  Karl Malone
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• When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • You
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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.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
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  • Control

• Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• My children are my life. They're so spectacular.

  

  Lara Logan
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• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

  

  Aaron Neville
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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.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.

  

  Tamer Hassan
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• I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

  

  Mary Quant
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• I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

  

  Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy
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• I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.

  

  Holliday Grainger
  • Believe
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• We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Believe
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• I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Feels
  • Aspect