Top 100 Alexei's Quotes
#1. For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
Alexei Sayle
#2. Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!
Alexei Nikolaevich
#3. In any case, I hadn't gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, and is reputed to be a virtue.
Alexei Panshin
#4. Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.
Alexei Navalny
#6. It's about time you guys got here,' Oliver quipped. 'Alexei and I were starting to think you'd gotten lost.' Daphne sniffed. 'Please. We weren't lost. We were shopping.' 'That doesn't make it any better,' Oliver retorted. In fact, I'd say that makes it worse.
Jennifer Estep
#7. You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.
Alexei Panshin
#10. People hate politicians. And I can understand why.
Alexei Navalny
#13. But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.
Alexei Sayle
#14. No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.
Katherine Rundell
#15. If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.
Alexei Sayle
#16. The meaning of life is basically to be the kind of person you would want to be around.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#17. Brock was up front with him, cuddling Alexei's beloved dog, Harry
Ted Bell
#18. Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
Alexei Sayle
#19. Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
Alexei Panshin
#20. The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.
Alexei Navalny
#21. It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes possible.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#22. I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.
Alexei Navalny
#23. ...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.
Alexei Sayle
#24. Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.
Alexei Sayle
#26. A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.
Alexei Sayle
#27. I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.
Alexei Panshin
#28. People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.
Alexei Mordashov
#29. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.
Alexei Navalny
#30. There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.
Alexei Panshin
#31. I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.
Alexei Sayle
#32. I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.
Alexei Navalny
#33. I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Alexei Sayle
#34. Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.
Alexei Navalny
#35. I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
Alexei Sayle
#36. I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
Alexei Sayle
#38. In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.
Alexei Mordashov
#40. I feel sorry for many politicians ... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
Alexei Sayle
#41. It appears that the ground of being which underlies
and sustains us despite our various inadequate and
conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous,
and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt
if we were, too.
Alexei Panshin
#42. If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.
Alexei Panshin
#44. I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
Alexei Sayle
#45. Alexei was a dream of something more ... He was a reminder that I could be so much more ...
Lada Ray
#46. Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.
Alexei Sayle
#47. My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.
Alexei Mordashov
#48. We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
Alexei Mordashov
#50. Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.
Alexei Panshin
#51. The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#52. Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead
Alexei Nikolaevich
#53. Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
Alexei Sayle
#54. Life makes no sense if you have to tolerate endless lies. I will never accept this system, which is built on lies, i will not stop my fight against this junta.
Alexei Navalny
#55. The future is in green energy; it's in making steel for energy-efficient cars.
Alexei Mordashov
#57. I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
Alexei Sayle
#58. There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark
Alexei Sayle
#60. First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
Alexei Sayle
#61. There is something unique about the size, and shape, and feel of a real physical book, and there is a real discovery about running your eye along a line of books and picking one out because it somehow LOOKS right.
Alexei Panshin
#62. Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
Alexei Sayle
#64. Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.
Alexei Panshin
#65. I always thought communism was crap, really.
Alexei Sayle
#66. When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.
Alexei Navalny
#67. I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.
Alexei Shirov
#69. If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
Alexei Sayle
#70. I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
Alexei Sayle
#71. This is the band Radical Posture, and my name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five-Year Plan Sputnik Pravda Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?
Alexei Sayle
#72. Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.
Alexei Navalny
#73. My handsome, intelligent, inimitable, delightful, prickly, unlucky Alexei Pavlovich, by the power of imagination invested in me I'll make you who you are because I want to.
Mikhail Shishkin
#74. The U.S. has done a great job improving productivity. We're making a lot more steel in Dearborn with fewer people. The unions have accepted much better work rules.
Alexei Mordashov
#75. Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.
Alexei Navalny
#76. The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.
Alexei Navalny
#77. Alexei has known me for most of my life. And he still sees me as a child. But t could be worse,I realize. He could see what I turned into.
Ally Carter
#79. I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.
Alexei Sayle
#80. The trouble is that each of us is his own hero, existing in a world of spear carriers.
Alexei Panshin
#81. In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level.
Alexei Navalny
#82. A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.
Alexei Yagudin
#83. The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#84. When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.
Alexei Navalny
#85. Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?
Alexei Sayle
#86. Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
Alexei Sayle
#87. The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.
Alexei Mordashov
#88. Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#89. They say sociopaths are dangerous because they know the subtleties of social interaction better than most people and they use this knowledge to use and exploit people. Well, it seems to me people with Asperger's are the opposite of sociopaths.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#90. People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Alexei Sayle
#91. Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
Alexei Mordashov
#92. Mostly it makes me want to pull Lila out of Alexei's arms and toss her in the pool. I
Ally Carter
#93. Russia is not a homogenous country; it's a very fragmented country.
Alexei Mordashov
#94. I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?
Alexei Navalny
#95. I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
Alexei Sayle
#96. What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.
Alexei Mordashov
#97. People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#98. When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus, or preserved jobs in Pennsylvania, everyone was happy.
Alexei Mordashov
#99. Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn't true, would you hit him or smile? That's how easy it is to tell.
Alexei Panshin
#100. We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.
Alexei Mordashov
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