Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.
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We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
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I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.
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Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
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Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.
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I can't say that there's been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everything's totally colorblind.
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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.
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We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.
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I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
