Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Just
  • Most

• We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Feelings
  • Ignore
  • Realize

• He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Power
  • Devil
  • Empathy

• You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Think
  • Me
  • Journalism

• Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Popular
  • Equality

• I don't have time to be depressed.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Depressed

• I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Dress

• When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Great
  • America
  • Dress

• You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • You
  • Always
  • Performance

• Boxing is what pays my bills.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Bills
  • Pays

• When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Find
  • First
  • Everything

• I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Years
  • Lessons
  • I've Learned

• 'Baskets' isn't a CBS show. Nothing against that, but this is an off-kilter show on cable that the channel lets you do interesting things. Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't, it's just a miniseries.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Interesting
  • Looks
  • Baskets

• Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Music
  • Art
  • Idea

• I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• My doctors say I am very healthy.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Healthy
  • Doctors

• We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Future
  • Faith
  • Present

• When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • World
  • Difficult
  • More

• When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Television
  • Touches
  • Wrestler

• You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.

  

  Tiffeny Milbrett
  • Player
  • Defenders
  • Gamer

• I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Office
  • Boxes
  • Grants