Russia Quotes - Page 40

• Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mass Destruction, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be...

  Vladimir Putin

  Cult Of Personality, Law, Violation

  "Vladimir Putin outdoes himself with 'record-making' televised Q&A" by Miriam Elder, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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• The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Allies

  "The case for western missile defence" by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2010.

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• It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

  Herbert Read

  Eugenics, Years, Twenties

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1971). “Anarchy and Order: Essays in Politics”

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• I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward - there were definitely some creepy vibes there.

  Norman Reedus

  Creepy, Vibes, Location

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• And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Letters, Mail

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gray Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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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, Cities, Leaving

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• Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

  Luke Scott

  Country, Attitude, America

  "Answer Man: Luke Scott talks Nugent, hunting and Obama origin". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

  Maria Sharapova

  Moving, Years, People

  "Maria Sharapova on her comeback, her love of competition and more". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Islamic, Use, World

  Interview With Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February, 2003.

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• Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

  Ben Stein

  Hate, Moon, Israel

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• Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

  Matt Taibbi

  America, Insane, Uniforms

  "The Bad Boy On the Bus: An Interview With Matt Taibbi". Interview with Janelle Nanos, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2005.

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• You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

  Matt Taibbi

  Military, Night, Opening Up

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• I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.

  Andre Leon Talley

  School, Culture, Moments

  "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Humble, Paris, Imagination

  "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Space, Railroads, Workers

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• I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Growing Up, Czech Republic

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• But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Nature, Sunset, Doubt

  "Orlando (Annotated): A Biography".

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• The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sleep, Want, Might

  Orson Scott Card (2005). “Enchantment”, p.77, Del Rey

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• Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

  Osip Mandelstam

  People, Poetry Is

  "Hope Against Hope: A Memoir". Book by Nadezhda Mandelstam (Chapter 35), 1970.

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• Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its creators, it deserves to be seen as the purest incarnation yet of the ideology that gave it birth.

  Naomi Klein

  Iraq, Years, World

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.455, Macmillan

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• In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

  James W. Loewen

  England, Violent, Burundi

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.111, The New Press

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• Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate surroundings. Forget Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and all the others. Do your part to the best of your ability, regardless of the consequences. Above all, do not wait for the next man to follow suit.

  Henry Miller

  Jesus, Men, Cities

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• They don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Wall, Angel, America

  Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.136, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me. "Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined." "Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Work Out, Fairy Tale

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