Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.

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• Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Political
  • Revolution

• There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Giving
  • Focus
  • Generosity

• People can experience loss of memory, daytime sleepiness. They can also have a difficulty concentrating.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Experience
  • Memory

• The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Perfect
  • Party
  • Republican

• All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Yoga
  • Flames
  • Divinity

• My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • God
  • Thinking
  • She

• Cheeseburger in paradise!

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Paradise
  • Cheeseburger

• Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • May
  • Truth

• Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Humans
  • Functioning
  • Distort

• The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Religious

• I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Blessed
  • Punch
  • Knockouts

• Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.

  

  William Allen White
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Language

• The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Kill
  • Talanted
  • Hungers

• I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Choice
  • Act
  • Camera

• Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Family
  • She
  • Wife

• Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Value
  • Give
  • Prize

• One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

  

  Michael Kinsley
  • Purpose
  • Thought
  • Answer

• Trust in the context of a conversation is believing that the other person will acknowledge me, not take advantage of me, not embarrass or humiliate me, tell me the truth, and, in the broader context, not cheat me, work on my behalf, and support the goals we have agreed to.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Trust
  • Goals
  • Conversation

• The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Benefits
  • Universal
  • Bases

• I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Benefits