Bulgarians Quotes

• In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Years, Jeans, Shoes

  "Thrown Under the Omnibus". Book by PJ O'Rourke, October 21, 2015.

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• The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Government, Greek

  "Mr. Gladstone and The Balkan Confederation". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, February 6, 1897.

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• Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.

  Liz Jensen

  Hangover, Night, Tangled

  Liz Jensen (2009). “The Rapture”, p.101, A&C Black

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• Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Summer, Thinking, Water

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• I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.

  Rick Steves

  Perspective, Way, Belgians

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• Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Pride, Enmity

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.170, Psychology Press

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• If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous school and his relationship with a prostitute. I doubt very much it will be evaluated on its merits as literature. If Bulgarian were the book's only language, that would be painful and limiting to me as a writer. Since my book also exists in English - where it isn't scandalous at all - I feel comfortable with the possibility of scandal.

  Garth Greenwell

  Teacher, Book, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love the Olympics. I love the idea of something happening every four years. I've always had love for Bulgaria, and I've always been a Bulgarian. That's also really part of why I want to play it. I know it's tough for the calendar, but at the same time, it's the Olympics.

  Grigor Dimitrov

  Years, Play, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We negotiated the construction of a gas pipeline system along the bottom of the Black Sea to Bulgaria. We signed certain treaties of a technical nature, contracts for laying the gas pipeline. And then Bulgaria created such conditions that the project's implementation became impossible, which was obviously against its own national interests. The former Bulgarian leadership was, in fact, aware of that and acknowledged it. But we trusted them when we were launching that project. We sustained losses amounting to millions, several million dollars. We would not want to get into such situations.

  Vladimir Putin

  Loss, Sea, Black

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

  Ivan Krastev

  Optimistic, Unhappy, Church

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• The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.

  Ivan Slavkov

  Football, Running, Unions

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• First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. 
  (on Bulgarian journalists)

  Ivan Slavkov

  Football, Jam, Firsts

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• I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm.

  Rick Steves

  Country, Thinking, People

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• I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda suck

  Kiersten White

  Night, Feelings, Blame

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• My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

  Rita Wilson

  Mother, Father, Greek

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is the storytelling, and I'm really comfortable working with all kinds of languages.

  Isabel Coixet

  Thinking, Chinese, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.

  Nigel Farage

  Doors, Issues, Opening

  "Britain to be 'swamped' by millions of immigrants" by Richard Spillett, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 24, 2012.

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• The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Home, Army

  David Lloyd George “War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1918”

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• I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Years, Cooks

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• I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

  Leah LaBelle

  Mom, Italian, Cooking

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• I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

  Georgi Parvanov

  Ethnicity, Political, President

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• I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

  Voltaire

  Running, Cutting, Pirate

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