Yakov Smirnoff Quotes

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

Yakov Smirnoff

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EducationLearningChildrenMoneyUp

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

Joaquin Phoenix

TimeYouMovieEveryCertainAmount

'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'

Jens Lekman

MyselfSayingFaceYouGoWay

It never occurred to me that 'Phantom of the Opera' was the sort of subject that I'd want to do, because I just thought it was something that would be a bit jokey. 'Til I read the book.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

MeBookThoughtWantNeverOpera

I can't imagine anything worse than being just left alone, scared out of your mind.

Melissa McBride

AloneMindOutScaredAnythingLeft

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

Mel Torme

BusinessAgeRichThinkThreeBreak

The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

Anand Giridharadas

AmericanPoliticalTalkingTelevision

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Stephen Hawking

TimeAngerAngryPeopleYouAlways

Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.

Tom Golisano

TalkPoliticiansBuyIncentivesGet

What I'm after is a composed music that will sound like improvised music when improvisors play it. You shouldn't be able to tell what parts are being improvised and what parts were written out beforehand; it should sound like the same music.

Roscoe Mitchell

MusicYouPlayWillSoundOut

Johnny Rivers is underestimated as an artist. We had four top 10 singles.

Lou Adler

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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

Juan Cole

ThinkSeriouslyRightPolicyBeen

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.

Brett Favre

PeaceAnimalWorryWeekYouNice

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