Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
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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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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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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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Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.
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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
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A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.
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I hate big models.
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I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
