Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.
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I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.
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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
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He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
