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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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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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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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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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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I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
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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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One of the things I like about being a celebrity is that you can get away with murder. Not just metaphorically, literally. Remember that annoying blond dog reporter at E News used to talk smack about me? I paid two mobsters five million dollars each to throw her off the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.
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Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
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When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.
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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.
