Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
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My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.
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When you start to live in a situation like that . . . it creates a sense of responsibility to your own life to do something that can help others.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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Acting is not my language at all.
