Andrei Bitov quote: "De ce crezi că nu-i iubim pe evrei? Pentru că, în orice împrejurare, ei sînt evrei. Uite, cîte unul parcă nici n-ar fi, te obișnuiești cu el și apoi, dintr-o dată, e evreu și încă cum! E vorba de <i>apartenența</i> care nu ne place la ei, tocmai pentru că noi înșine nu o avem."

Se obișnuiește a considera aristocrația ca fiind fragilă, nepractică, neadaptată vieții, nepu...
ANDREI BITOV

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to s...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
ANDREI VOZNESENSKY

If they don't think, people act senselessly.
ANDREI PLATONOV

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power real...
ANDREI PLATONOV

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
ANDREI PLATONOV

I lived and languished.
ANDREI PLATONOV

I have a trend of my own.
ANDREI PLATONOV

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
ANDREI PLATONOV

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
ANDREI PLATONOV

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
ANDREI PLATONOV

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.
ANDREI PLATONOV

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
ANDREI PLATONOV

He's pretty confident right now. Somehow he found the right shots, he got the lines and match point ...
ANDREI PAVEL

If I play to my best form, I could beat anyone. I dream to win this tournament, although it is diffi...
ANDREI PAVEL

Without the support of the crowd today I would have been the victim, ... He played unbelievably well...
ANDREI PAVEL

I did not have anything to offer in the final and to be honest David was just too good.
ANDREI PAVEL

I went to the toilet in Saturday's match with (Tommy) Haas because I was tired and not feeling too g...
ANDREI PAVEL

It is hard to win in front of your supporters, but I am happy that in the end I gained victory.
ANDREI PAVEL

I didn't expect to be in the final. I'm very happy.
ANDREI PAVEL

I think that tiebreak was the key of the match. After that he got a little bit tired. I think someho...
ANDREI PAVEL

That topspin lob was the key to the match. That was my chance there.
ANDREI PAVEL

I think that tie break was the key of the match. After that, he got a little bit tired. I saw that h...
ANDREI PAVEL

Accusations of powerful Jews behind the scenes are part of the most dangerous traditions of modern a...
ANDREI MARKOVITS

It would happen, even if the guy were Italian. But the very fact that the guy is American is just in...
ANDREI MARKOVITS

That's like Larry Brown being cited before Congress for only bringing home a bronze from the Athens ...
ANDREI MARKOVITS

It's a clash between the new and the old in Germany. There is a real cleavage between the left, libe...
ANDREI MARKOVITS

There are very few cases of a young, educated, middle-class North Korean defector who would get a go...
ANDREI LANKOV

They (the U.S.) could do nothing but wait until the regime collapses, or they could attack, which co...
ANDREI LANKOV

For decades, this country was second only to Albania, or even second to none, for keeping out all in...
ANDREI LANKOV

The 2002 reforms were just a recognition of changes that had happened already. It's not reform in an...
ANDREI LANKOV

There are no visible signs of economic reform, There's a big difference.
ANDREI LANKOV

Energy weapons are being used against neighbors.
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

Russia will deliver energy supplies only to those it likes, only to those regimes who are friendly w...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

These quasi-state corporations are in fact driven by private interests while taking advantage of the...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

I considered it important to remain here at this post as long as I had the possibility to do somethi...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

This year, Russia has become a different country. It is no longer a democratic country. It is no lon...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

It is one thing to work in a partially free country such as Russia was six years ago. But it is quit...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

This is a state model with the participation of state corporations, which although they are public i...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

Neo-imperialist trends in foreign policy have strengthened, and energy has been used as a weapon to ...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

The main outcome of this year is the formulation of a new, corporatist model for political, economic...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

Alexander Nikolayevich was a defender ? a defender of our country, of democracy, of freedom of peopl...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.
ANDREI GROMYKO

An exchange of ideas occurs when you take an idea to your boss and you come back with his idea.
ANDREI GROMYKO

[The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
ANDREI GROMYKO

Thank you, Comrade President.
ANDREI GROMYKO

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
ANDREI GROMYKO

My personality doesn't interest me.
ANDREI GROMYKO

But at the same time, the political process must not be interrupted and it is very fragile in Sudan.
ANDREI DENISOV

The important thing is that five permanent Security Council members demonstrated a common approach.
ANDREI DENISOV

When you speak about a threat to international peace and security, you must have strong, clear and l...
ANDREI DENISOV

We'll meet from time to time but we didn't discuss any proposals to arrange the meeting of the whole...
ANDREI DENISOV

Let's just imagine that we adopt it and today we issued that statement -- then what happens after tw...
ANDREI DENISOV

There is window of opportunity. Whether we, I mean all of us, use it or not, well it's another quest...
ANDREI DENISOV

We need strong irrefutable evidence that Iran is engaged in atomic weapons. This is not a play where...
ANDREI DENISOV

If you impose sanctions theoretically on Iran, then it would be appropriate to ask a question: Who i...
ANDREI DENISOV

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother's.
ANDREI CODRESCU

Two-thirds of what we call New Orleans culture is really myth-making, ... People feed myths of the c...
ANDREI CODRESCU

[Many have been speculating on the future of New Orleans. Reading these stories has given me hope th...
ANDREI CODRESCU

[l Description of poetry:] It's better to let others describe it, ... The language of Saje's poems d...
ANDREI CODRESCU

the city that dreams stories.
ANDREI CODRESCU

Iubirea adevărată e o experienţă a bucuriei împărtăşite şi ea iradiază, ca atare, în înt...
ANDREI PLEșU

It was good to have the crowd. It was a great help to us. In the final we have to play without their...
ANDREI ZUBAREV

We can compete with them physically. We are more skilled. If we play to our technical level we will ...
ANDREI ZUBAREV

At the end of the game I had tears in my eyes.
ANDREI ZUBAREV

We can compete with them physically but, on a technical level, we will beat them. We will try and be...
ANDREI ZUBAREV

I am especially grateful for the memory of my grandmother, Maria Petrovna, who was the family's good...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideo...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

I am no professional politician-which is perhaps why I am continually obsessed by the question as to...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

My public stand represented a turning point for me and my entire future. The article very quickly be...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

I grew up in a large communal apartment where most of the rooms were occupied by my family and relat...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immed...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

My father played the piano remarkably well, in particular Chopin, Grieg, Beethoven and Scriabin. Dur...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

I worked under conditions of the highest security and under great pressure, first in Moscow and subs...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spir...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

We must make demands of reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the goals we only dimly ...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

We have repeatedly stated to our European partners that restrictive policy toward Belarus is groundl...
ANDREI POPOV

We told our European partners that their policy towards Belarus is groundless and useless.
ANDREI POPOV

The European Parliament is making laughable calls on deeming the elections illegitimate.
ANDREI POPOV

The Foreign ministry does not comment on visits by individuals. We assume that there is even less po...
ANDREI POPOV

The elections in Belarus do not require external recognition or non-recognition. In this situation, ...
ANDREI POPOV

The goal of these so-called 'observers' is to provoke conflict situations during the election campai...
ANDREI POPOV

It is Belarus' aspiration to hold free and fair elections complying with the law and international o...
ANDREI POPOV

The American side deliberately distorts facts related to a visit to Minsk by U.S. and EU representat...
ANDREI POPOV

If the United States and European Union countries respect the people of Belarus, they should respect...
ANDREI POPOV

The people of Belarus have made their choice and it's absolutely irrelevant here whether the United ...
ANDREI POPOV

Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a socie...
ANDREI CODRESCU

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
ANDREI LANKOV

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research s...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alterna...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory ...
ANDREI SAKHAROV

I believe that the Stabilization Fund is a sphere where simple solutions must be avoided.
ANDREI SHARONOV

After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever...
ANDREI CODRESCU

The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and confl...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

We are opportunistic. We have a very significant war chest. Our net debt is around $3 billion. It's ...
ANDREI GAIDAMAKA

Suspicious containers with pipes were found in two other shops, they are being defused.
ANDREI ALYABYEV

It's going to be very emotional for me.
ANDREI CAPUSAN

[Holy Cross] wasn't our best game. This is pretty much up there with what we're capable of. It's bas...
ANDREI CAPUSAN

Definitely, this is a step in the wrong direction. It runs counter to the [International Atomic Ener...
ANDREI KRIVTSOV

This opinion is invariable, and it will be reaffirmed at the upcoming talks.
ANDREI KRIVTSOV

The time has come for these changes to be put into practice and not only talked about.
ANDREI KOZLOV

The family was a team. All the children were very good. He maybe had a chance for two children to be...
ANDREI KOZLOV

Physicists have known that dark energy could become negative and the universe could collapse sometim...
ANDREI LINDE

The standard vision at the moment is that the universe is speeding up, so we were surprised to find ...
ANDREI LINDE

The universe may be doomed to collapse and disappear. Everything we see now, and at a much larger di...
ANDREI LINDE

It's great to win and I think we did a pretty good job, especially in the second half. We were being...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

We are a real inconsistent team and a performance like this makes us happy. We need to continue to d...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

All we tried to do, ... was just play on him ? involve him in any pick-and-roll, and let him do what...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

There were like three seconds before the shot-clock violation, and I thought he was gonna shoot and ...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

Definitely Greg. He doesn't always say [much], but people listen to him.
ANDREI KIRILENKO

Nobody knows what's going to happen. I hope it (weight) protects me because in my career, the last s...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

I think we are still playing part good and part bad, ... When we executed our offense, we got a lot ...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

He is one of the three best point guards in Europe, and without a doubt he will strengthen our team....
ANDREI KIRILENKO

Having Jon on our side has made the team so much stronger. It has made us real contenders for the Eu...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

Yeltsin's delivery during his oath and the fact that he made no speech indicated that he was unwell,...
ANDREI KORTUNOV

They want to make sure that the question is not resolved, that they continue to fight. And they will...
ANDREI KORTUNOV

The impeachment results do not necessarily mean that the president is strong. He is not. The results...
ANDREI KORTUNOV

In order to get anything through sometimes you have to bribe, sometimes you have to co-opt a bureauc...
ANDREI KORTUNOV

The prices of $51 for 2006 and $46 for 2007-2008 are considered a more realistic option. Because the...
ANDREI KLEPACH

If the situation does not change, price growth for diesel will amount to 20% by spring this year.
ANDREI KLEPACH

Is it abusing children? Is it practice? Is it military?
ANDREI KOZLOV

Sometimes he screamed at them too much, but it was coming from his heart.
ANDREI KOZLOV

We are currently carrying out IPO work at the ministerial level. I believe we'll submit the IPO prop...
ANDREI KOSTIN

We are now working with the Federal Property Ministry, Finance Ministry, and the government apparatu...
ANDREI KOSTIN

We are planning a public share offering in the near future, most likely on the Russian market.
ANDREI KOSTIN

We plan to offer a significant number of the shares to members of the public. Interest exists there....
ANDREI KOSTIN

I see 2006 as a year of integration and improvement of our network.
ANDREI KOSTIN

By 2010, we want to gain at least 10% market share in terms of assets and other key indicators.
ANDREI KOSTIN

Such short-sighted actions are ineffective. They aggravate mutual relations, not help improve them.
ANDREI POPOV

The risks of corruption are real when decisions are made on individual cases. But unlike a unified p...
ANDREI SHARONOV

The whole oil and gas industry in Russia is strongly undervalued and will stay so for quite a long t...
ANDREI IVANOV

Energy weapons are being used against neighbors. The move toward a policy of imperialism ... has a c...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

They were placed in a hotel, their freedom within the village is not limited, and there was no decis...
ANDREI ORLOV

So far the actions of these tourists is unclear, so to speak, and an investigation is being conducte...
ANDREI ORLOV

The two foreigners were spotted and detained by border guards.
ANDREI ORLOV

We will probably ask the court to postpone hearings to review the documents and thoroughly prepare f...
ANDREI MIRONOV

We are working closely with U.S. lawyers to resolve the situation. At the same time, we are consider...
ANDREI MIRONOV

We cannot take any action until the factual side of the case becomes known [to us].
ANDREI MIRONOV

Memo did a great job in the overtime.
ANDREI KIRILENKO

It did not look like it was my match, but somehow in the best-of-five matches there is always a chan...
ANDREI PAVEL

We started to push the ball and beat Denver at their game. They like to run a lot and sometimes they...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

This may seem unreal now, but six years ago the price was $16 per barrel.
ANDREI SHARONOV

Our position as regards the restrictions imposed by the European Union remains unchanged -- these sa...
ANDREI POPOV

Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to ge...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

Sometimes you get streaks in a game. Cold and hot streaks and I think we just found that streak and ...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

Изморось поливала прохожих: награждала их гриппами; вм...
ANDREI BELY

From the line I was concentrating. I was a machine. I like scoring, especially from the free throw l...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it a...
ANDREI SINYAVSKY

He's amazing and I think he's the guy that won the game tonight.
ANDREI KIRILENKO

When I took the job, we spoke about pursuing a liberal economic policy. Now, the state has evolved i...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

The state can be inept, irrational and pursue strange interests, but those interests were always see...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV

I wouldn't say Dwayne Wade won the game, I'd say Miami won the game. They really played as a team. T...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
ANDREI PLATONOV

I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

We are playing as a team and executing very good. We just executed so well. In the fourth quarter we...
ANDREI KIRILENKO

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the ...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.
ANDREI CODRESCU

O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
ANDREI PLATONOV

We hate our squalor.
ANDREI PLATONOV

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. ...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the pr...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our ...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pourin...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
ANDREI CODRESCU

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their p...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learn...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY

An exchange of ideas occurs when you take an idea to your boss and you come back with his idea.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO

[The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO

Thank you, Comrade President.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO

My personality doesn't interest me.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO

De ce crezi că nu-i iubim pe evrei? Pentru că, în orice împrejurare, ei sînt evrei. Uite, cîte unul parcă nici n-ar fi, te obișnuiești cu el și apoi, dintr-o dată, e evreu și încă cum! E vorba de apartenența care nu ne place la ei, tocmai pentru că noi înșine nu o avem.

Andrei Bitov

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