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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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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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'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
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If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
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Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
