Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous. Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, based on personal taste and the areas I have worked in, it is not necessarily true for others.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
