Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.
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I always try to be reasonable and effective.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
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Writers take words seriously - perhaps the last professional class that does - and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.
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Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
