Yakov Smirnoff Quotes

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

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• To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • You
  • Face

• I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Difficult
  • Need
  • Tools

• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Feel

• It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • War
  • Me
  • Amazing

• I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Complete

• I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Will
  • London
  • Go

• Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Experience

• My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Money
  • Lost
  • City

• I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Long
  • Money
  • Heart

• I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Business
  • You
  • Woman

• To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Partner
  • Lazy
  • Argument

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Might

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Regret

• 'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • She
  • Me
  • Name

• You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Alive
  • Matters

• For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Rock
  • Better
  • Same

• I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.

  

  Janna Levin
  • Art
  • Science
  • Connection

• And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

  

  Dan Bern
  • Dream
  • Nice
  • Language

• Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Language
  • Connection
  • Same