Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
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When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.
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IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.
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Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
