Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.
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I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.'
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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
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I owe 'Jericho' my whole time in America, really. It was a fantastic group of people to work with.
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
