Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
Quotes to Explore
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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I'd love to believe in my government so I could trust law enforcement people again. I don't have that belief any more.
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My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.
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I hope that I'll be able to have kids with a mate. But I don't know if that's in the plan.
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Opening for The Beatles in San Francisco at the Cow Palace was great. It was terrific fun to do. The tour itself, I must say, wasn't a whole lot of fun, artistically. It was just more kind of interesting.
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The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.
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If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
