Yakov Smirnoff Quotes

In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.

Yakov Smirnoff

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• I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Party
  • Creativity

• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Life
  • Change
  • Environmental

• I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

  

  Halsey
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Harmony

• Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Power
  • Political
  • Financial

• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Up
  • Free
  • Morning

• Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Happen
  • Victim
  • My Own

• Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • May
  • Look
  • Yoga

• Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Garden
  • Apple

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Understand

• I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Writing
  • College

• I've always had an addictive nature.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Addictive

• We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Night
  • Musicians
  • Top

• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Small
  • Community
  • City

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • God
  • Long
  • Country

• When we started Poco, we were too country for rock, and we were too rock for country.

  

  Richie Furay Buffalo Springfield
  • Country

• It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Three

• The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Meet
  • Ignoring
  • Portfolio

• It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Don Nickles
  • America
  • Hate

• In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Country
  • Fun
  • City