Surkov Vladislav Quotes

#1. I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them. And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things.

Oscar Wilde

#2. An act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

#3. I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Kerry Healey

#4. Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

Vladimir Putin

#5. In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food are sold with a healthy slathering of sex to make them more commercially appealing.

Alan Moore

#6. In L.A., you just kind of come and have a nice hiking-yoga-gym life.

Darren Star

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

Vladislav Surkov

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.

Betty Who

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

Vladislav Surkov

#12. 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

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

Vladislav Surkov

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

Vladislav Surkov

#15. All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

Napoleon Bonaparte