Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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At school, I'd sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn't know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I'd hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.
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I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.
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The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.
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When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
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My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
