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I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
Irina Shayk
Men
Russian
Diamonds
Caviar
You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.
Irina Shayk
You
People
Made
Cold
Russian
Russian People
Know
Very
Snow
Break
Resistant
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan Turgenev
Alone
Great
You
Fate
Language
Free
Country
Doubt
Righteous
Dreary
Russian
Support
Powerful
Days
Comfort
Oh
Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.
Jack Reed
Future
Democracy
Our
Eye
Russian
Prevent
Misconduct
Facts
Blind
Blind Eye
Learn
Foreign
Governments
Afford
Get
American
Cannot
Turn
Interference
Lessons
Need
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.
James Fenton
Memory
Matter
Eloquence
Extraordinary
Draw
Russian
Poets
Crowds
Could
Writers
Period
Attraction
Course
West
Began
Who
Figures
Popular
Aware
Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
James Forrestal
World
Poison
Aims
Has-Been
Russia
Russian
Fact
Moreover
Simplified
Practical
Been
Accomplishment
Greatly
Antidote
Offered
My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.
James Horner
Music
People
Big
Composers
Some
Russian
Mahler
Never
Over
French
Mostly
Wagner
Were
Tastes
Fan
Place
English
Early
Medieval
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.
Jared Leto
Change
Director
Young
Too
Way
Those
Kids
Russian
Cage
Annoying
Learn
Lines
Trying
Young Actor
Dismay
Much
Nic
Who
Actor
Eager
Started
I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.
Jason Ritter
You
College
Parents
Think
Out
Able
Russian
Seems
Almost
Like
Understand
Coming
Been
Friends
Closet
As Far As
Far
Your
Roulette
Things
We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.
Jean-Claude Juncker
Money
High
Russian
Rates
Attract
Interest
Interest Rates
I did not have any private meetings nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel.
Jeff Sessions
Meetings
Russian
Hotel
Private
Nor
Did
Officials
Any
Conversations
Recall
Who needs Russian gas if we could get all the heat we need from our own surplus? Who needs Middle Eastern oil, when we can integrate limitless renewable sources in our smart grids?
Jens Martin Skibsted
Needs
Smart
Own
Our
Eastern
Russian
Could
Renewable
Limitless
Surplus
Integrate
Sources
Get
Heat
Middle
Oil
Middle Eastern
Who
Gas
Need
He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Time
Home
Me
Doctor
Living
Way
Way Home
Running
Phrase
Russian
Had
He
Head
Massachusetts
Doctor Who
Him
Heard
Office
Just
Patients
Where
After
Translating
Working
Who
Interpreter
Number
I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.
Joe Bastianich
Me
Together
Mother
Style
Madonna
Russian
Bought
Reminds
Chef
Done
Icon
Her
Portrait
Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.
Joe Biden
Work
Good
Peace
Vision
Free
Ukraine
Frankly
Russian
More
Remind
Occupation
Deal
Still
Quite
Quite Frankly
Us
Aggression
Illegal
Europe
Strategic
Whole
Good Deal
Guarantee
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
John Boyd Orr
Communism
Police
Evil
State
Secret
Russian
Concentration
Real
Camp
Communist
I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.
John Grant
Beautiful
Beginning
Difficult
Russian
Struggled
Head
Learned
Because
Around
Proud
How
How Much
German
Very
Get
In The Beginning
Much
Works
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.
John Irving
Teacher
History
Father
Books
Russian
Small
Small Child
He
House
Around
Always
Were
Up
Child
Where
Grew
Loved
Grandmother
Full
Novels
Lived
President Obama took charge of the Oval Office seven years ago. He promised a positive reset in relations with Russia. But with the radioactive poisoning of a British spy in London, the downing of passenger jets over Europe, and the aggressive advances of Russian forces from Ukraine to Syria, President Putin of Russia has rebuked Mr. Obama.
John J. McLaughlin
Positive
Aggressive
President
Took
Relations
President Obama
Seven
Ukraine
Syria
Charge
Promised
Obama
London
Russia
Russian
He
Poisoning
Putin
Advances
Oval
Oval Office
Over
Forces
Passenger
Years
Years Ago
Spy
Office
Europe
Radioactive
Downing
Jets
British
Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
John L. Phillips
Progress
Space
Accident
Has-Been
Carrying
Russian
Columbia
Supplies
Smaller
Vehicle
Vehicles
Since
Been
Space Program
Literally
Agency
Us
Amount
Bringing
Load
Need
Program
Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
John McCain
Ambition
Stated
Restore
Russian
He
Putin
Empire
His
Times
Wants
Many
I'm very inspired by the artfulness and soulfulness of the Russian people.
Johnny Weir
People
Russian
Russian People
Inspired
Very
Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.
Joseph Brodsky
Will
Citizen
Poet
Once
Russian
Stop
Being
I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.
Joseph Brodsky
You
Citizen
Poet
Think
States
Russian
Combination
Essayist
Happiest
English
United
United States
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
Joseph Brodsky
Patriotism
People
Language
State
Oaths
High
Russian
Point
Point Of View
Writer
Writes
He
How
View
Measure
Platform
Whom
Lives
Among
Belong
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.
Joseph Brodsky
Losing
Poet
Citizenship
Russian
Although
Am
Cease
Soviet
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