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In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drive you!

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Yakov Smirnoff
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 24
Actor
Comedian
Odesa
Yakov Naumovich Pokhis
Soviet
Drive
Russia
Car
America

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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
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I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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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.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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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.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.
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