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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When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.
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I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
