Tanya Thompson quote: "There’s no English equivalent for silovik. It doesn’t translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism."

With the amount of diazepam in me, I should have been content to lie back and let events unfold as t...
TANYA THOMPSON

When you nationalize the expenditures but privatize the revenue, everything is profit.
TANYA THOMPSON

There’s Ambien-in-alcohol weird and then there’s Ambien-mistaken-for-cocaine weird.
TANYA THOMPSON

There are scores of people who have never recovered, or been recovered, from an FSB interrogation. TANYA THOMPSON

Do you know the difference between neurotics and psychotics?”

“Neurotics build castl...
TANYA THOMPSON

Fate would have it that the timing of your birth determines your measure of luck. You’re either bo...
TANYA THOMPSON

Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he di...
TANYA THOMPSON

The absolute truth is a wicked sort of rush. It’s far more amusing than any lie. Both have the pot...
TANYA THOMPSON

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.
TANYA ROBERTS

Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process fo...
TANYA TUCKER

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
TANYA TUCKER

Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and ...
TANYA TUCKER

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
TANYA TUCKER

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
TANYA TUCKER

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
TANYA TUCKER

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling...
TANYA TUCKER

He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of p...
TANYA TUCKER

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom ...
TANYA TUCKER

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with...
TANYA TUCKER

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
TANYA TUCKER

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my hors...
TANYA TUCKER

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record an...
TANYA TUCKER

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
TANYA TUCKER

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything a...
TANYA TUCKER

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
TANYA TUCKER

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they...
TANYA TUCKER

Everybody has problems.
TANYA TUCKER

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
TANYA TUCKER

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.
TANYA TUCKER

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
TANYA TUCKER

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? A...
TANYA TUCKER

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're wal...
TANYA TUCKER

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance ...
TANYA TUCKER

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
TANYA TUCKER

What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether ...
TANYA ROBERTS

Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
TANYA ROBERTS

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
TANYA ROBERTS

You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a...
TANYA FISCHER

It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmma...
TANYA FISCHER

You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they dec...
TANYA FISCHER

I'm no producer's kid.
TANYA FISCHER

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can pla...
TANYA FISCHER

I love being from Wisconsin.
TANYA FISCHER

I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me a...
TANYA FISCHER

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately f...
TANYA TUCKER

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
TANYA TUCKER

A quick check on the platoon showed everyone more or less enjoying the flight.
"Whatever it is ...
TANYA HUFF

He cubbed her in his arms to sleep,
even her demons snored that night ~
TANYA GAMBHIR

If he only knew how she refuse to let him go even when he was gone ~
TANYA GAMBHIR

She had the prettiest eyes
& prettiest smile with
Wounds on her heart and
bruis...
TANYA GAMBHIR

A female and her two kittens are now staying almost exclusively in the Mountain Village area.
TANYA SHENK

All the airlines we speak to would be happier with a geographic name.
TANYA VANASSE

This is a major declaration of intent. We no longer want to be talked about--we now want to do the t...
TANYA HARRIS

Growing out the ceiling, around the corner, in the hallway. I had mushrooms growing out of my carpet...
TANYA PAYTON

Egg whites add volume and protein to your omelet with few calories and no extra fat or cholesterol. ...
TANYA ZUCKERBROT

WINE! Because these problems aren’t going to forget THEMSELVES!
TANYA MASSE

I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't!
TANYA MASSE

She knew he was gone when his " call me when you reach home " reduced to " bye " and his unsaid good...
TANYA GAMBHIR

We are using Tom Wolfe's name as a brand, rather than the title of the book. He is an icon himself.
TANYA FARRELL

(Everything) is in full throttle here.
TANYA CHAPLIN

You should base everything on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with...
TANYA MASSE

Even AWESOME MOMS use the F-BOMB!
TANYA MASSE

We are not a very big team, but we are very fast, probably one of the fastest teams around. We have ...
TANYA SULLIVAN

Every Sunday night I have a Cinderella moment when the clock strikes 12 and I have to go back to sla...
TANYA HUBRACK

Her front wasn't the best; she struggled off the tee. But when she made the turn, she really turned ...
TANYA NIEDBALSKI

M.E. isn't just 'exercise phobia': it is a physical illness.
TANYA MARLOW

Imagine you’re diagnosed with epilepsy: what would you think if you weren’t referred to a specia...
TANYA MARLOW

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
TANYA HUFF

He didn't lie
he just gave her false hopes~
TANYA GAMBHIR

Those tremendously tall columns -- that has definitely come and gone. It was an accident waiting to ...
TANYA MARSHALL

With a strange logic, [Rod Liddle] asserts that because ME patients deny that they have a psychiatri...
TANYA MARLOW

What's the deal? Why can't he look
into my eyes when I have words
of appreciation lined u...
TANYA GAMBHIR

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.
TANYA HUFF

If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
TANYA TUCKER

This place,' Annabel waved her left arm in a circle. 'It is a place filled with misery, hatred, jeal...
TANYA THISTLETON

She was his dawn of bliss
He was her dusk of wounds,
Each day they came up to
See a...
TANYA GAMBHIR

I'm quite certain that if I lost my sense of humor, it would most definitely need to be replaced by ...
TANYA MASSE

Acknowledging awesomeness is powerful, contagious, important and necessary!
TANYA MASSE

The happiest people are the ones who can build a firm foundation of awesomeness out of the stones pe...
TANYA MASSE

Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE

AWESOMENESS is the closest you're gonna get to heaven while you're here on earth.
TANYA MASSE

If you think someone is AWESOME, tell them! The world NEEDS more of THAT!
TANYA MASSE

Gratitude makes you a better, stronger, wiser person. Ingratitude makes you a negative, angry, miser...
TANYA MASSE

Sweetie, you don't need to drive me to the brink of insanity... I'm close enough to walk!
TANYA MASSE

In the face of adversity you have three choices... You can let it DEFINE you, let it DESTROY you or ...
TANYA MASSE

Stay HIGH on AWESOMENESS so reality cannot destroy you!
TANYA MASSE

Really think about what you want your eulogy to say about you, then live THAT.
TANYA MASSE

When you focus on the positive, the blessings and the humor and just do your thing and you stop worr...
TANYA MASSE

Don't ever let anyone bring you down, define who you are or destroy your AWESOMENESS.
TANYA MASSE

Do unto others as you'd have KARMA do unto you! Stop thinking in terms of "What's in it for me?" and...
TANYA MASSE

It’s certainly TOUGH being AWESOME all
the time, but I do it so the kids have someone to loo...
TANYA MASSE

Your RELIGION does not make you a good person. Your BEHAVIOR does.
TANYA MASSE

Be SO AWESOME that when people are exposed to you, they want to BE AWESOME too!
TANYA MASSE

Being out of the ordinary is AWESOME.
TANYA MASSE

But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slaye...
TANYA HUFF

Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.
TANYA MASSE

Love and laughter are stronger than cancer.
TANYA MASSE

Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high reg...
TANYA R. LIVERMAN

Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow?
TANYA R. LIVERMAN

A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is ...
TANYA R. LIVERMAN

A person's world is only as big as their heart -Tanya A. Moore.
TANYA A. MOORE

An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students.
TANYA R. LIVERMAN

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but...
TESSA THOMPSON

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
LEA THOMPSON

When Elvis came out on stage, it became electric. And the way people responded to him was such that,...
LINDA THOMPSON

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.
LINDA THOMPSON

I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis.
LINDA THOMPSON

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum ja...
LINDA THOMPSON

Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he lov...
LINDA THOMPSON

As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.
LINDA THOMPSON

I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene - bigger, higher, fa...
LINDA THOMPSON

We only do harm to ourselves when we harbor resentment and vitriol toward another. I do believe that...
LINDA THOMPSON

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace...
LINDA THOMPSON

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
LINDA THOMPSON

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a l...
KATE THOMPSON

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of...
KATE THOMPSON

I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play t...
KATE THOMPSON

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good ...
KATE THOMPSON

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
KATE THOMPSON

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've w...
KATE THOMPSON

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philos...
KATE THOMPSON

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. Th...
KATE THOMPSON

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are s...
KATE THOMPSON

What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolte...
KATE THOMPSON

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at En...
KATE THOMPSON

There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at...
KATE THOMPSON

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he ...
KATE THOMPSON

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination...
KATE THOMPSON

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
KATE THOMPSON

I've always felt a bit hard done by in England - you know, I've won the Bisto three times in...
KATE THOMPSON

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give...
KATE THOMPSON

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. Th...
KATE THOMPSON

You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very int...
KATE THOMPSON

When in doubt, use brute force.
KEN THOMPSON

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Citi...
CLIVE THOMPSON

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A...
JIM THOMPSON

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of br...
SCOTT THOMPSON

I will probably hear more in the next day or so. His last tests showed an improvement and he has inc...
ALAN THOMPSON

This job is well-suited for people who want to work hard. Some of the people who work here just love...
ALAN THOMPSON

I'm taking video evidence of a number of incidents over the last two years which happened at the Oly...
ALAN THOMPSON

(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at ...
ALAN THOMPSON

Celtic is one of the world's biggest clubs and this agreement sets the seal on an amazing month for ...
ALAN THOMPSON

Congratulations on holding the line this year, ... We appreciate the efforts your department has had...
ALAN THOMPSON

I think sometimes people think, 'We'll leave it for Grant to do'.
ALAN THOMPSON

I think some of the guys prepared poorly,
ALAN THOMPSON

Had he been in a different era, he would have been the one, and this time he has been able to stand ...
ALAN THOMPSON

And they have got an ability to coach and an ability to swim. Even in the old days - whatever they w...
ALAN THOMPSON

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletic...
DALEY THOMPSON

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
DALEY THOMPSON

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
DALEY THOMPSON

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be th...
DALEY THOMPSON

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after...
DALEY THOMPSON

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to cat...
DALEY THOMPSON

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
DALEY THOMPSON

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power ...
DALEY THOMPSON

I am only about winning and getting better.
DALEY THOMPSON

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.
DALEY THOMPSON

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my care...
DALEY THOMPSON

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything...
DALEY THOMPSON

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
DALEY THOMPSON

If you're not in it you can't win it.
DALEY THOMPSON

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don'...
DALEY THOMPSON

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really w...
DALEY THOMPSON

I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you ...
DALEY THOMPSON

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon r...
DALEY THOMPSON

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't affo...
DALEY THOMPSON

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
DALEY THOMPSON

I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur...
DALEY THOMPSON

I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit sla...
DALEY THOMPSON

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to im...
DALEY THOMPSON

If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - a...
DALEY THOMPSON

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
DALEY THOMPSON

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now ...
LEA THOMPSON

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
E.P. THOMPSON

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again...
CRAIG THOMPSON

When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems ver...
SADA THOMPSON

I am a very bottom-up thinker.
KEN THOMPSON

It was the first study conducted with middle-class African-American men.
AARON THOMPSON

Defense is key, it comes first.
AARON THOMPSON

It's the right thing to do. We're doing what any responsible institution would do.
AARON THOMPSON

It's safe to say the institutions won't be up and running for a while. They'll be here for at least ...
AARON THOMPSON

It's just interaction with your customer, if he's buying you a drink, that should be OK, and you kno...
AARON THOMPSON

[To meet that need, said Aaron Thompson of the Orange County Red Cross, the school board has turned ...
AARON THOMPSON

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a c...
TESSA THOMPSON

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beau...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ROY THOMPSON

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON

We have become a little Main Street. These shops are out there every single Saturday selling mostly ...
ALLEN THOMPSON

This community has been outstanding. There are a lot of differences of opinion in this community, bu...
ALLEN THOMPSON

We've become the place where people come to meet. Because we are in the center of town, people will ...
ALLEN THOMPSON

It has been very, very exciting. It has really grown.
ALLEN THOMPSON

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

There’s no English equivalent for silovik. It doesn’t translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism.

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There’s no English equivalent for silovik. It doesn’t translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism.

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