Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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	I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.   
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	I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.   
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	People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'   
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	The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.   
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	There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.   
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	The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.   
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	I like things simple.   
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	I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.   
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	If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.   
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	To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.   
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	My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.   
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	They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.   
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	Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.   
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	Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.   
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	America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?   
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	People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.   
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	I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.   
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	I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.   
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	I was definitely a late bloomer.   
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	I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.   
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	But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.   
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	Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.   
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	After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					