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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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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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.
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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
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We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.
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The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
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Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
