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.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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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.
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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.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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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.
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I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!
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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.
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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.
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Always follow your own path.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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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.
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We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.
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I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.
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At no point do I ever remember taking religion very seriously or even feeling that the biblical stories were any different from fairy stories. Certainly, none of it made any sense. By comparison, the world in which I lived, though I might not always understand it in all aspects, always made a lot of sense.
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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?'
