Quote by Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a p

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

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When Im alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. Its a Catch-22 kind of thing. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society. – Oliver Tambo

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. – Mark Twain

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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. – Mahatma Gandhi

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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. – Bashar al-Assad

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Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. – Lucretia Mott

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

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After having done this whole slew of press for Big Love, now Ill have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I cant even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on Jersey Shore. – Chloe Sevigny

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