Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.
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All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.
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I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
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When you like something, you find time to do it.
