Yakov Smirnoff Quotes

In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you!

Yakov Smirnoff

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Write
  • Create
  • Joke

• For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Free
  • Service

• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Shame

• Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Work
  • Done
  • Today

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Crazy

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Done
  • Know
  • Always

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Death

• Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Great
  • Chance
  • Memories

• The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • America
  • Value

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Economy
  • Down

• I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Year
  • Started
  • Shell

• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Myself

• America is the paradise of lawyers.

  

  Lawyer
  • America
  • Paradise

• Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

  

  Jef I. Richards
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Law

• In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America's net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to 'peak' its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.

  

  John Barrasso
  • America

• The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

  

  Edward Kennedy
  • Country
  • Financial

• In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you!

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • America
  • Law
  • Brother