Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
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Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.
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My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
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The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
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In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
