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  • Bobbi Brown Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies' handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Agnes Smedley Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Anna Lindh Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Agnes Smedley For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Bill Cosby I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
    Source: Bill Cosby on Fatherhood
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Adolf Galland I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bill Plympton I'm much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Robert Frost If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Alan Parsons In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Lillian Hellman Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Boris Yeltsin International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Bobby Fischer Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.
    Source: Radio Interview, May 15 2005 [29]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Leon Trotsky Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Agnes Smedley Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Bob Balaban My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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