Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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I think of myself as an actor.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
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Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.
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I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
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Every street light will be interconnected to the Internet because we can save when car is not passing. Automobile will all be connected, so driverless car much safer.
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You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.
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For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.
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I was realizing, 'I work out all the time. Why can't I drop this weight?' It's really food. So I started dieting a little.
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There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.
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I don’t want to achieve my dream. I just want to pursue my dream until I die.
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When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
