Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

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• The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

  

  Gavid Hood
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• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • High
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• As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • You
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• I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • High Heels

• A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • She
  • Amazing

• I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Known
  • Few
  • Munich

• As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Job
  • Acting

• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • inspirational
  • Rather

• Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Challenges

• The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Ability
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• I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Job
  • Know
  • Nervous

• Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.

  

  Randy Falco
  • World
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• This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
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• The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Black
  • Road

• Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Great
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  • Rock

• Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Growth

• It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

  

  Eva Gabor
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Body

• Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Star
  • Sound

• When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Body
  • Minutes
  • Revealing