"There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough."

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Source : "Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. April 10, 2014.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#Running Quotes #Russia Quotes #Way Quotes

“Somatic Exercises can change how we live our lives, how we believe that our minds and bodies interrelate, how powerful we think we are in controlling our lives, and how responsible we should be in taking care of our total being.”
“Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.”
“It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.”
“What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?”
“It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.'”
“To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price”
“We start to feel not good enough and we withdraw our hearts energy and sensor our authentic expression, and that hurts!”
“The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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