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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me.

Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

I read Russian literature a lot.

Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that, Think about it...playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?

When the boys at school found out I had a potentially fatal peanut allergy, they used to hold me up against a wall and play Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels!

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think it's the thing we do best.

I have a nut allergy. When I was at school the other children used to make me play Russian roulette but force-feeding me a packet of Revels.

condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.

The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will finance his next invasion on Kickstarter.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul?

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy.

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.