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.

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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

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• 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
  • Religious

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

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • Work
  • Different
  • Job

• In every school, community center, city hall, and state capitol, there are women who are making their voices heard and standing up for the people they serve - women who aren't just demanding change but finding ways to create it. They are making an impact, and along the way, they're inspiring others to do the same.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• I love everybody that I work with, and we have so much fun.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Have

• People have mentioned, 'Maybe you should try to be more sexy. Look at how this butt stuff propelled this person to the top of the chart; it's amazing!' And I'm like, 'What if I really want to sing something to people?' I speak my mind. I want to be that person people feel they can listen to.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • People
  • Mind
  • Amazing

• 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