A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
I like to go to anybody elses birthday, and if Im invited Im a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really dont care. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesnt reimburse us on any of these things. – Jan Brewer
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead. – Olive Schreiner