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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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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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.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
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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.
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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.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.
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I think human societies tend to be problematic.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.
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Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
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By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.
