Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.
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Up until the age of 13, girls are confident, and they feel like they can conquer the world. Then adolescence sets in, and girls lose their confidence. And 'Seventeen' is really about them taking an hour out of their month, unplugging, lying on their bed, and reading a magazine that believes in them.
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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
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I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
