Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.
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For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
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Living in your genome is the history of our species.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.
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I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.
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'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)
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The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.
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Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
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When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.
