Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

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• My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • She
  • Style

• Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Music
  • Business

• I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • Down
  • Bring

• I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Thought
  • Just
  • Phenomenal

• In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Research
  • Students
  • India

• I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Singing
  • Face

• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Woman
  • Looking

• Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • You
  • Stop
  • Moving

• We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • Government
  • Need

• The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Time
  • Say
  • Tour

• Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Me
  • Winning
  • Worth

• Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Always
  • Enjoy
  • Win

• Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Food
  • Things
  • Need

• Always follow your own path.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Path
  • Own
  • Follow

• I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

  

  Maluma
  • Lyrics
  • Filled
  • Margins

• In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Lord
  • Divine
  • Goodness

• Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Happiness
  • Enemy

• We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Time
  • Family
  • Church

• Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Stage
  • Material

• Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Children
  • Father

• Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Stage
  • Gamble