Russia Quotes - Page 28

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.

Otto von Bismarck

War, Pieces, Mercury

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In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Areas

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Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

Nikolai Berdyaev

Names, Humanity, Denial

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In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

Anton Chekhov

Philosophy

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Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Country, Ukraine, Alliances

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I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

Tom Ford

Fashion, Art, Two

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It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war.

Frederick Forsyth

War, Rights, Humanity

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As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

John Lennon

Games, Class, China

Source: www.counterpunch.org

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I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.

Madonna Ciccone

Reality, Suffering, Complaining

Source: www.vanityfair.com

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Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

Condoleezza Rice

Want, States, Democratic

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Russia has got to be the team to beat, in my opinion. When they are playing together as a team, they are tough to beat.

Jaromir Jagr

Team, Together, Opinion

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China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.

Michael Anti

Country, Mean, India

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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

Henry Rollins

Land, People, Tough

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Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

Margaret Thatcher

Heaven, Society, Earth

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Russia is bent on world domination.

Margaret Thatcher

World, Bent, Domination

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If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.

Donald Rumsfeld

Years, People, Fans

"Kremlin resists charms of Star Wars" by Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2001.

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The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.

Jacques Chirac

Believe, Risk, Revision

"Debates of the Senate". www.parl.gc.ca. February, 8, 2001.

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My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.

A. R. Rahman

Play, Australia, Japan

Source: collider.com

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My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.

Joseph Brodsky

Fashion, Ego, Trying

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

Joseph Brodsky

Use, Interest, Feels

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches at the faculty club. In Russia it suggests the moral force of an art practiced against the greatest personal odds, as a discipline, solitary and intense.

Joseph Brodsky

Art, Odds, Ideas

"Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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In Russia, the moment a person opens his mouth you know where he's from. There's the uniformity of experience of an individual in Russia. When you're about 7 years old you get into school and you get put in this factory or this bureaucracy or whatever. The options are computable. Here it's tremendously diverse.

Joseph Brodsky

School, Years, Mouths

"Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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Every video from Russia is depressing, it's like they have their cameras set to sad.

Daniel Tosh

Depressing, Cameras, Video

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I think in Russia, there's a lot of storytelling and anecdotes.

Eugene Mirman

Thinking, Anecdotes, Storytelling

Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2012.

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And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.

Steve Wozniak

People, Secret, Prison

"Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Blasts NSA Amid Rumors Steve Jobs Resisted PRISM Program" by Betsy Isaacson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2013.

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