Moscow Quotes - Page 4

• If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'

  Hermann Broch

  Rome, Ideas, Age

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• The Soviets are not just looking at Moscow, they have a very extensive program of not only research, development, they have built this radar net around the whole country. One of those radars has become infamous because it's a clear violation of the ABM Treaty. They have an infrastructure and they are well prepared to develop a nationwide defensive system.

  Fred Ikle

  Country, Research, Development

  "Ideology of the Reagan Administration". WGBH Educational Foundation Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 24, 1987.

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• Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, and perhaps indelible, mark, which a servitude of two hundred years has imprinted on the character of the Russians.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Years, Two

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

  Brian Blessed

  Adventure, Space, Views

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• I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria.

  Martin Schulz

  Believe, Ukraine, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Opportunity, Budapest

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• There are definitely many adventures on the road with Jessica 6. It sometimes feels like we're in a movie. I was recently kidnapped by 2 taxi drivers in Moscow. They drove me over 2 hours out of town till I started to cry then they drove me 3 more hours finally to my hotel!

  Nomi Ruiz

  Adventure, Towns, Sometimes

  "Jessica 6's Nomi". Interview with Sam Blodgett, brightestyoungthings.com. April 8, 2011.

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• My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole. At 67, I also became the oldest man to reach 28,400ft on Everest without oxygen.

  Brian Blessed

  Love Is, Men, Oxygen

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.

  Paullina Simons

  Father, Son, Knowing

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• My mother lives in Moscow, and I would like to visit her. Now she always has to travel to Finland or a Baltic country to meet me. But I have to expect that my papers would be confiscated in Moscow immediately, and that they would harass my family. I can still have more impact in the West with my books and lectures.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mother, Country, Book

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kgb, Russia, Eight

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

  Daley Thompson

  Fun, Dark, Opposites

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• The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.

  Garry Kasparov

  Ukraine, Agreement, Hopeful

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

  Dick Beddoes

  War, Team, Different

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• In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow.

  Liz Garbus

  Stars, Home, Unions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Thinking, Towns

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• The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies.

  Ted Cruz

  Russia, Iran, Enemy

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then the camera moves to the right. Then comes Kiev, then Moscow and then everything stops. This seems to be the West's view of us - of a wild Russia that begins past Moscow, a place one prefers not to see. This is a big mistake. The West must pay closer attention.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Mistake, Moving, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his head down and waited until the situation changed in his favor with the beginning of the Pacific War.

  William J. Duiker

  War, Ideas, Advice

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.

  Paul Virilio

  Reading, Giving, Deployment

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Mother, Believe, Holiday

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

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• The Democrat Party of the 1980s chose the Soviet Union over Ronald Reagan, in Nicaragua, and in Moscow as well. Now, all of a sudden, they don't like Russia and they don't like the Soviet Union?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Russia, Nicaragua

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.

  Gerald Horne

  Country, Yield, Rights

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian newspaper cor­respondent, and when he came by to pick me up he asked me if I'd mind going with him first to talk to a young American defector, one Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was staying at the Metropole, an old Czarist hotel just off Kremlin Square.

  Truman Capote

  Night, Italian, Squares

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  Marat Safin

  Thinking, Russia, Cities

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