The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate.
Michelle Trachtenberg

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
Herbie Mann

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
Jeff Goldblum

The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.
Akhmad Kadyrov

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
Lajos Kossuth

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
John Boyd Orr

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
Richard Owen

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.
Hjalmar Schacht

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
Gerry Mulligan

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.
Jeffrey Sachs

The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.
Alexander Kerensky

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Karl Liebknecht

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

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.
Joseph De Maistre

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.
Klaus Fuchs

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.
Ramman Kenoun