Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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• Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Live
  • Me
  • Difference

• When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
  • Future
  • Humanity

• I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Me
  • Comedy

• It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Failing

• Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Future
  • Song
  • Free

• I'm from Southampton.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Southampton

• I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Children
  • Way
  • Ideas

• The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Experience
  • Piece

• In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fear

• I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece .

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Giving
  • Health
  • Care

• It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Help
  • Words
  • English

• Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happy
  • Soul
  • Peace

• And yet after thirty years and millions upon millions of dollars’ worth of research, we have failed to find consistent genetic patterns for schizophrenia—or for any other psychiatric illness, for that matter. Some of my colleagues have also worked hard to discover genetic factors that predispose people to develop traumatic stress. That quest continues, but so far it has failed to yield any solid answers.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Stress
  • Research
  • Discover

• Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

  

  Plato
  • Trouble
  • Deserve
  • Wise Man

• I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

  

  Stephen Root
  • Acting
  • Lines
  • Cues

• religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

  

  Marion Chesney
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.

  

  Gabrielle Dennis
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Trust

• I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Lines
  • Restaurants
  • Tickets