"Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything."

-- Gary Shteyngart

#Country Quotes #Mean Quotes #Russia Quotes

“Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.”
“When it comes to my own makeup, I like to look fresh, clean, and well-rested-nothing too crazy. My mother really introduced me to beauty. She's obsessed with all of the magazines' 'best of' lists, like the ones in Allure, Glamour, and InStyle. Her beauty cabinet looks like one of those annual lists. She got me into finding staples, and as much as I love going to Neiman Marcus to just play around, generally, when I find something that I like, I stick with it for years.”
“I think that ultimately when life is not tragedy it should be a party and if you've faced the real stuff, if you've faced the ones closest to you being at death's door, passing on, you know, not to let the small stuff really harsh your mellow, as you put it.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Imagination is always greater than reality, and the reality of a sex paradise is that they offer a supposed escape from the nightmare of repressive society.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.”
“People want security in this insecure world.”
“I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - itâ€™s the Britishâ€¦the Dutchâ€¦then itâ€™s the Arabsâ€¦then itâ€™s the Frenchâ€¦then itâ€™s the Jewsâ€¦and then, on down the line.”
“We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!”

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