Andrei Tarkovsky
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ANDREI ILLARIONOV I wouldn't say Dwayne Wade won the game, I'd say Miami won the game. They really played as a team. T... ANDREI KIRILENKO The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat. ANDREI PLATONOV Se obișnuiește a considera aristocrația ca fiind fragilă, nepractică, neadaptată vieții, nepu... ANDREI BITOV We are playing as a team and executing very good. We just executed so well. In the fourth quarter we... ANDREI KIRILENKO De ce crezi că nu-i iubim pe evrei? Pentru că, în orice împrejurare, ei sînt evrei. Uite, cîte... ANDREI BITOV Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory. ANDREI CODRESCU O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde? ANDREI PLATONOV We hate our squalor. ANDREI PLATONOV It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold. ANDREI CODRESCU 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
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