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Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
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Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions.
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I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
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Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.
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Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.
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I thought they spoke Russian in the Ukraine." "Well, yes. Depends what part of Ukraine. They're not so different languages, the two.
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I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another.
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Being that most everyone knew Latvian and Russian, it was the only indication.
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But he just pushed her away and said, 'Pokhoda, cyka!' Walk, bitch. She did. They went off down toward the bus stop. And that was it." "You speak Russian?" "No, but I have a good ear and a computer.
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I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.
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Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom.
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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.
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I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I am now never in Russia; I am Austrian citizen. But definitely I am Latin!
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Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.
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I'm big in Russia, but no one's quite sure why.
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Russians understand the rhythm of despair.
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So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
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Nikolai's a badass Russian. Badass Russians only have three emotions: revenge, depression, and vodka.
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I am a Bolshevik.
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Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.
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Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.
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I couldn't be certain, but I think Rose swore in Russian.
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I'm a Russian. Without the Motherland, I'd be nothing.
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Russia! Russia ... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
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I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.
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The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.
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Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.
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It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.
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everyone is a russian communist
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There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.
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I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead ... or a really effective oligarch.
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There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.
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I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
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I have nothing to do with Russia.
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A Russian drunk is a fascinating creature. Even when he has money, he still prefers poison at a rouble forty. And he won't take the change.
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Russian women are very friendly with makeup, almost too friendly sometimes.
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What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.
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Ovechkin does not play like a Russian. He plays like an NHL player.
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The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.
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Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
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There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
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My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them.
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I have won Russia at least 16 world championships. I have fought for my country.
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In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.
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Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage in the store and lots of cheap vodka.
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Russia drunks are the kindest people and the kindest people are drunks.
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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
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You ... ." just you, always you. My russian Cu**, my enemy, my comrade, my prisoner, my gaoler and my life. Words unthinking. "Love ... ... you.
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A bitch. No prostitute. A bitch. If you were a Russian you would understand.
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
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In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian.
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Goodness, how sad is our Russia!
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Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.
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I love Russia because Russia gave me you.
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They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.
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The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me.
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Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
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Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.
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The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
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English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
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I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.
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My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.
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The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.
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It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.
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Are they Russian by way of the Ozarks?
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Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"
This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War?
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After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.
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The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
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Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.
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Open the doors, the Russians say, here comes trouble. On
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.
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There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.
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I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
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I hate vodka. It is the second worst thing to have come out of Russia, after communism - which isn't Russian anyway, Karl Marx was Russian.
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British. My mother
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I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school ... everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy ... And being an actor, I've been able to use it quite a bit.
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Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.
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There is no such thing as Russian fascism. You won't find a single Russian who considers Russians to be a superior race and who advocate expulsion of aliens.
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Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.
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Russians don't complain, usually.
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Slavophilism, the messianism of backwardness, has based its philosophy upon the assumption that the Russian people and their church are democratic through and through, whereas official Russia is a German bureaucracy imposed upon them by Peter the Great.
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I'm very inspired by the artfulness and soulfulness of the Russian people.
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I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.
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Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .
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Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
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I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I'm your classic American mutt.
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Russian men have a saying: "Women are like buses ... " That's it.
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I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character.
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The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.
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The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
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Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Stick." I said in Russian. I had no clue what the word for stake was. I pointed at the silver ring I wore and made a slashing motion. "Stick. where?"
He stared at me in utter confusion and then asked in perfect English, "why are you talking like that?
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Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation, play hardly any role in grading. Were it the case, Russian would certainly be placed on the winner's stand. It would rank first in plasticity.