"Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually."

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Source : "Our Friends Speak : Greetings to the 25th CPSU Congress", p. 268, 1976.

Leonid Brezhnev

#People Quotes #Soviet Quotes

“It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.”
“Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.”

Source : Charles Wheelan (2010). “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
“It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived”
“The same drugs are way cheaper in Germany than in America because, obviously, if all sickness funds negotiate with the drug companies for a single price, then the market power of the sickness funds is fully used. So therefore you would expect the prices to be lower for the drugs in Germany, and this is exactly what you see, at least for non-generic drugs.”

Source : "Frontline", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2007.
“Comedy doesn't have to be loud and obnoxious and beat you over the head. It can be this really small detail that, when it computes in your brain, you think, "That's great. That's masterful."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I've thought about doing a subscription service, where people pre-pay and then we send them 12"s as they're finished, with one song on each side. That would be really fun. But we'll need a significant time off from touring to be able to fulfill that.”
“Those who prepare for war get it.”
“I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.”

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