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As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.
Elliot Perlman
Jews
Late
Russian
Had
Name
Talking
Polish
Came
Were
Australia
Might
Grandparents
Who
Now
Suggest
Jewish
Russian women are now interested in clothes. But they will never attach supreme importance to fashions as do Europeans and American women, because they are too vitally interested in all the various projects going on in their country.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Women
Will
Country
Clothes
Too
Projects
Vitally
Russian
Various
Attach
Never
Importance
Supreme
Because
Women Are
American
Going
Interested
American Women
Europeans
Now
Fashions
In general, global economic growth supports Russian economy.
Elvira Nabiullina
Russian
General
Economic
Economic Growth
Supports
Economy
Global
Growth
I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.
Emma Watson
Collections
Russian
Like
Been
Dolls
Quirky
Places
Things
Set
If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.
Evan Osnos
You
Changed
Back
Way
Russian
Identity
Go
German
Hollywood
Villains
Filmmakers
I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.
F. Sionil Jose
Music
Passion
Living
Hundreds
Russian
Poetry
Mere
Feel
Understand
Audience
Rhythm
Lovers
Urdu
Roomful
Warmth
Pakistani
The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
Federica Mogherini
Leadership
Political
Circle
First
Everybody
Russian
Russians
Clear
Economy
Effect
Surroundings
Close
Sanctions
Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
Federica Mogherini
Respect
Rights
Expectation
Own
Human Rights
Our
Citizens
Russian
Federation
Part
Protect
Principles
Does
Human
Full
People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
Fedor Emelianenko
Myself
Me
People
About
Russian
Russian People
Allow
Never
Towards
Judgements
Making
Opponent
Any
Aggression
Based
Why
I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.
Francis Ford Coppola
Saying
Me
Science
Speak
Care
Job
Picture
Russian
Could
Write
He
Make
Make Up
Science Fiction
Understand
Dialogue
Were
Up
Roger
Any
Fiction
Wanted
Whether
Landed
English
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
Galina Vishnevskaya
Musical
Tried
Shade
Russian
More
Voice
Color
Emphasizing
Pictures
Know
Audience
Understood
Wanting
Paint
Using
Boldly
Nuance
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
Today
Fall
Puppets
Russian
Parliament
Instructions
Kremlin
Bunch
Just
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
Democracy
Learning
People
Alien
Invention
Think
Russian
Russian People
Western
Thing
Well, the band name is just a stupid thing. We used to live in Russia and our friend there, a Russian lady just kind of described my sister as a clean bandit.
Grace Chatto
Stupid
Band
Sister
Live
Our
Kind
Russia
Russian
Clean
Name
Well
Stupid Thing
Friend
Bandit
Just
Lady
Just Kind
Used
Thing
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Gyorgy Ligeti
People
Thought
Long
Russian
He
Almost
Because
Years
Often
Fifty
Lived
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
Harold Brodkey
Death
Events
Mother
Revolution
About
Case
Russian
Drove
Come
Account
Autobiography
Should
Flights
European
Include
Here
Jewish
My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.
Helen Mirren
Mother
Half
Say
Would
Russian
Bottom
English
Dad
I lived at Star City for more than a year ahead of my trip to Mir on May 18, 1991 in Soyuz TM-12. My life at Star City was so remote that learning Russian became my greatest priority.
Helen Sharman
Life
Learning
My Life
Year
City
Trip
Mir
Russian
More
Remote
Became
Greatest
Priority
Than
May
Star
Lived
I would say that during my lifetime, one of the worst political scandals in Sweden was absolutely what happened surrounding the affair of the submarines in Swedish waters in 1982, where there were supposed to be Russian submarines close to Stockholm. And the military of Sweden never got one up.
Henning Mankell
Political
Military
Waters
Say
Worst
Scandals
Would
Russian
Absolutely
Lifetime
Never
Supposed
Got
Affair
Were
Up
Surrounding
Close
Stockholm
Where
Happened
Sweden
Swedish
The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony.
Henry Kissinger
Attitude
Ukraine
Crisis
Border
Russia
Russian
Part
Towards
Like
Diametrically
West
Legality
Trying
Any
Establish
Established
Different
The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
Herbie Mann
Music
Heritage
Hungarian
Russian
Which
Now
Based
Playing
I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
Howard Fast
Needs
Socialism
Thought
Revolution
Market
Market Forces
Evolution
Would
Would-Be
Some
Russian
Between
Like
Forces
Always
Bloody
American
Working-Class
Reasonable
Here
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.
Ian Frazier
Me
Book
Writing
Own
Books
Would
Superficial
Russian
Write
Take
Genre
Read
Forever
Wanted
Last
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
Ian Frazier
Humor
Insanity
Sense
Out
Some
Russian
Make
Nonsense
Lives
Adapt
My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
Ian Gomez
Mom
Family
Kind
Russian
Weird
Catholic
Mix
Rico
Dad
Puerto
Puerto Rico
Jewish
I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.
Ildar Abdrazakov
Singing
Russian
Only
Came
West
Roles
Started
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