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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This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.
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I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.
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I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.
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If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
