Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
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I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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I dress for men.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
