Yakov Quotes

Yakov and the Seven Thieves. - Madonna

Why should the entire architecture of agreements in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, and its cornerstone, the 1972 ABM treaty, be put under threat? - Alexander Yakovenko

When you have this kind of problem, it calls into question the entire system. As an investor, you question whether the liquidity in that market is there, whether you can buy or sell exactly when you want to. And maybe you decide to sell off your stocks if you don't trust the system. - Yakov Amihud

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter. - Yakov Smirnoff

We were in an open field waiting for the arrival of an official... We discussed everything, we interrupted each other and said, 'That thing must be changed and that one's intolerable ... everything's intolerable.' - Alexander Yakovlev

We promised that things would get better, but things were getting worse and worse... Cold War. - Alexander Yakovlev

We must now find opportunities to revive the process, including [through] contacts between the co-chairs and the presidents and [through] new meetings -- rather a new meeting -- between the two presidents so that they could continue discussing. But we're now in a rather delicate phase and we haven't even started discussing [that possibility]. It's even difficult to talk to the parties about that because there is no international meeting scheduled [in the near future] that both two presidents could attend. - Yury Merzlyakov

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. - Yakov Smirnoff

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

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts. - Yakov Smirnoff