Vladislav Surkov famous quotes
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The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us. After all, the West isn't a charity organization. How have we been perceived for centuries? As a huge, warlike realm ruled by despots - first by the czars and then Bolsheviks. Why should anyone have loved us? If we want to be accepted, we have to do something in return. And it's an art that we have yet to master.
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Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.
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I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.
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When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.
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As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.
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Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.
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I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.
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The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.
-- Vladislav Surkov
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Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
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Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
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When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.
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When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
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The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
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We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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