Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I'm a big advocate of breastfeeding.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.
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You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
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The people of Cascade County have been so generous in sending help to the areas affected by the hurricanes, and we are confident that those same people will help us achieve our goal, which will allow us to continue meeting needs right here in our own community.
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Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
