Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

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• There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Ideas
  • Process
  • Commitment

• Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Care

• I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • People
  • Fear
  • Reason

• Mothers are not simply models of femininity to their daughters but also examples of how a woman reacts to a man. Daughters learn about fathers, and men, not only by being with Dad but also by observing their parent's marital relationship-- or its unraveling.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Relationship

• I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Artist

• The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.

  

  Leon Blum
  • Together
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Why
  • Question

• I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Picture
  • Paint

• My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Identity

• For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

  

  Lisa See
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Desire

• Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

  

  Don McLean
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Simple
  • Judgment
  • Operations

• Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Aim
  • Target

• Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Movies

• Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I hear they like to chop block. I'm not a big fan of it, but you've got to be prepared and ready for it.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Fan
  • Block
  • Readiness

• Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Love
  • Choices
  • Importance

• Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

  

  L. M. Boyd
  • Chinese
  • Firsts
  • Knives

• I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Firsts
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  • Dancer