Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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I'm much more careful now about who I let into my life, but I don't think you could ever change what you're attracted to. You can make choices if you want to be with those people.
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'There is nothing,' says a correspondent of the New York Times, 'which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
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This is a continuation of what I started two years ago with 'Don Giovanni.' I want to continue this tradition of bringing highlights of great operas on the series.
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Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
