Surkov Quotes

#1. THE SELF IS THE ROOT of the mental poisons. Our mind fabricates, projects, and attaches concepts to people and things. Egocentric fixation reinforces the qualities or defects that we attribute to others. From

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

Christopher McDougall

#3. I know I won't be there for every part of your life, but I'd like you to be there for every part of mine. I do.

Lia Habel

#4. We are all human, so we may trespass each other. But there is always grace for forgiveness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.

Vladislav Surkov

#6. 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.

Vladislav Surkov

#7. 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.

Vladislav Surkov

#8. As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

Vladislav Surkov

#9. 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

#10. I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

Vladislav Surkov

#11. Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.

Vladislav Surkov

#12. I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

Jeff Mangum

#13. You can't worry about the rest of the world, never mind the rest of the universe. All you can do is look to your left and your right and try to be kind to whoever is there.

Rowan Coleman

#14. How do you know it's love? I don't know, but it lasts forever.

Van Halen