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Andrei Codrescu

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ANDREI PLATONOV I lived and languished.
ANDREI PLATONOV I have a trend of my own.
ANDREI PLATONOV Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
ANDREI PLATONOV From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
ANDREI PLATONOV Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
ANDREI PLATONOV At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.
ANDREI PLATONOV A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
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ANDREI GROMYKO An exchange of ideas occurs when you take an idea to your boss and you come back with his idea.
ANDREI GROMYKO [The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
ANDREI GROMYKO Thank you, Comrade President.
ANDREI GROMYKO Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
ANDREI GROMYKO My personality doesn't interest me.
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ANDREI DENISOV The important thing is that five permanent Security Council members demonstrated a common approach.
ANDREI DENISOV When you speak about a threat to international peace and security, you must have strong, clear and l...
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ANDREI DENISOV There is window of opportunity. Whether we, I mean all of us, use it or not, well it's another quest...
ANDREI DENISOV We need strong irrefutable evidence that Iran is engaged in atomic weapons. This is not a play where...
ANDREI DENISOV If you impose sanctions theoretically on Iran, then it would be appropriate to ask a question: Who i...
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ANDREI KOSTIN We are planning a public share offering in the near future, most likely on the Russian market.
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ANDREI KOSTIN By 2010, we want to gain at least 10% market share in terms of assets and other key indicators.
ANDREI KOSTIN Such short-sighted actions are ineffective. They aggravate mutual relations, not help improve them.
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ANDREI MIRONOV We are working closely with U.S. lawyers to resolve the situation. At the same time, we are consider...
ANDREI MIRONOV We cannot take any action until the factual side of the case becomes known [to us].
ANDREI MIRONOV Memo did a great job in the overtime.
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ANDREI SINYAVSKY He's amazing and I think he's the guy that won the game tonight.
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ANDREI KIRILENKO The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
ANDREI PLATONOV I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.
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ANDREI BITOV O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
ANDREI PLATONOV We hate our squalor.
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ANDREI TARKOVSKY An exchange of ideas occurs when you take an idea to your boss and you come back with his idea.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO [The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO Thank you, Comrade President.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO My personality doesn't interest me.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
ANDREI A. GROMYKO