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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads this is the reason we stop laughing.

Yakov Smirnoff

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Yakov Smirnoff
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 24
Actor
Comedian
Odesa
Yakov Naumovich Pokhis
Reason
Heads
Sometimes
Hearts
Heart
Balance
Laughing
Stop
Forget
Society
Today

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