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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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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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.
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The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
