Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
Quotes to Explore
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.
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When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice as a kind of cross-media attempt. I have indeed tried many different kinds of media over the past 20 years and collaborated in many different ways with people from many different fields. However, I like to understand this process as a kind of compensation for having once lost my "right of choice," an exercise of free choice and taking responsibility for any consequences that might result from it. To be honest, it's a bit of a paranoid act.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
