No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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LORETTA YOUNG It is a lie.
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MARLON ANDERSON Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.
BILL SANDS You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
MARVIN MINSKY No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
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CHRISTINE FEEHAN You want to talk about a matter of inches. No one was more distraught than Ambrose after that game.
CHARLIE WEIS I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer.
SAVION GLOVER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.
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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea...
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Bac...
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MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounc...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace
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MIKHAIL BULGAKOV The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In gene...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we ha...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other me...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmaker...
MIKHAIL STRABO The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does ...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to t...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
MIKHAIL STRABO To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In gene...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and w...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no l...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealis...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... T...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different ...
MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule o...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasiti...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, the...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common int...
MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle.
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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK bei...
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cum...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN We practically always excuse things when we understand them
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intel...
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MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certa...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth
Symphony will remain.
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Always choose the hardest route, because the results will be more efficient.
GEORGE MIKHAIL The enemy of your enemy is your friend.
GEORGE MIKHAIL I like when I don't have to be careful what I say. That's when you know you're with the right people
GEORGE MIKHAIL Life is Maths, lots of correct methods, same outcome
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MIKHAIL PROKHOROV Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny
MIKHAIL DUDAN We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN In the documents given to the Russian side by the Volcker Commission, there is no base of evidence, ...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The return to the moratorium is one of the components.
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Georgia is a sovereign state that decides on its own in what organization it should be represented.
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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV If not me, who? And if not now, when?
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN We have not received any reply to the Russian proposal from Iran.
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MIKHAIL BULGAKOV What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
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MIKHAIL MARGELOV A birthday party will be a modest one, and I shall celebrate it with relatives and friends.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV In Russia, we still have a great deal of work to do.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV We spent the first days trying to get the picture. I can't agree that we were trying to conduct a sl...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV We have not yet left the past behind: its death grip can be felt everywhere.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV She tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union.
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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV a great deal is still to be done before stability develops into national accord.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Those who want Russia to continue to grow in IT should work with Russian companies, with our science...
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN The Russian side has presented the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia with the necessa...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN European countries have not granted visas to members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who wer...
MIKHAIL MARGELOV From this point of view the nuclear plant does not constitute any threat to the non-proliferation re...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN We expect Slovakia to join in the creation of four common Russia-EU spaces and the enhancement of co...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a h...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced ...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an a...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have t...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘The Peop...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the othe...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone th...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV One can speak of sanctions only after the appearance of concrete facts proving that Iran is not enga...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN We will only be able to talk about sanctions after we have concrete facts confirming that Iran is no...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN At the present time, the concerns of the international community over the Iranian nuclear program ca...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Sanctions could only be discussed when evidence is provided that Iran is pursuing not only peaceful ...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Only the Council is authorized to make binding decisions on suspending cooperation with a state in a...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The adoption of a commitment on ending cooperation with this or that state in some sphere lies exclu...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The Iranian government has made no positive steps demanded in the February 4 resolution of the board...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The arms export control system we have developed is one of the strictest and most reliable in the wo...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Russia will strictly abide by the existing agreements and contracts with Western partners in the del...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Despite the intensive three-year work, the IAEA cannot yet make a conclusion about the absence of un...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Of course I invited Bush and Margaret Thatcher and (Spanish former prime minister) Felipe Gonzalez, ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has t...
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV While adhering to his convictions, with which one could agree or disagree, he was not dogmatic; he w...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.
MIKHAIL DUDAN Russia's position is that status issues must be discussed at the third stage of talks within the Joi...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN devotion to his followers is a remarkable example to all of us.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am fr...
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