Russia Quotes - Page 18

• I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Queens, Memories, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you can have ten shots of vodka and be perfectly okay. If I had ten beers, I would be liquidated.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Beer, Cities, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't drink vodka, either in Russia or here. I don't think there's ever a wrong time to start drinking it. My ancestors drank it, and if I ever have any children, they'll be drinking it.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Children, Drinking, Thinking

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Dark, Age

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Real, Tomatoes, Sun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Mean, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Government, Rebel

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

  Lilia Shevtsova

  Ukraine, Lines, Tests

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• It was announced today that Iran has reached a deal with the U.S. to limit its nuclear program and send most of its uranium to Russia. Then Americans said, 'That's great! Wait, WHAT?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Iran, Waiting, Nuclear

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• In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Order

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• Open the books ... and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States Treasury for the benefit of Russia. Find out what business has been transacted for the State Bank of Soviet Russia, by its correspondent, the Chase Bank of New York [owned by the Rockefellers].

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  New York, Book, Taken

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• I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

  Anton Chekhov

  Integrity, Believe, People

  Letter to I.I. Orlov, February 22, 1899.

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• Russia has banned all adoptions to Americans. So, if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, you're going to have to wait until Lindsay Lohan reproduces.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, White, Adoption

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• I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Wall, Rain, Simplicity

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• Boris Nemtsov, left his mark on the history of Russia, in politics and public life. He worked on important positions in the difficult transition period for our country. He always openly and honestly stated his position, defended his point of view.

  Vladimir Putin

  Life, Country, Views

  "Boris Nemtsov: Opposition figure who took on Vladimir Putin" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. February 28, 2015.

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• We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

  John F. Kerry

  Change, War, Behavior

  "Calls grow to arm Ukraine, as European leaders scramble for last-ditch peace plan". www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2015.

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• This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I believe that Russia has a chance to be free. Has a chance. It's difficult, but we must do it.

  Boris Nemtsov

  Education, Country, Believe

  "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", edition.cnn.com. May 11, 2014.

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• We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Real, Political, Competition

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• Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.

  Vladimir Putin

  Environmental, Fifteen, Pollution

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• I think would send a very strong message to Putin and to Russia that NATO countries and the United States are going to respond by growing stronger economically and strategically.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

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• A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

  Vladimir Yakunin

  War, Cost, Use

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But I am not constantly pointing my finger and criticizing things that are a country's internal affairs.

  Vladimir Yakunin

  Country, Doe, West

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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

  Iran, Enemy, Warfare

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

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• Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken by its past, and our past would be our future.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Mean, Past, Church

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Oil, West, Indifference

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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