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But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here. -- Natalia Vodianova
The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated. -- Bob Schaffer
I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless. -- Alfred Schnittke
In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow. -- Roman Abramovich
We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender. -- W. Averell Harriman
To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow! -- Anton Chekhov
The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load. -- Anatoly Chubais
Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it. -- Anton Chekhov
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind. -- Marat Safin
I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism. -- Alfred Rosenberg
I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to. -- Alexander Pushkin
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. -- W. Averell Harriman
Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels. -- Dasha Zhukova
The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting. -- Aslan Maskhadov
The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide. -- Luke Harding
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country. -- Boris Yeltsin
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung. -- Earl Browder
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year. -- Alexander Lebed
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it. -- Jeremy Northam
Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today. -- Svetlana Alliluyeva
I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment.... Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new... -- Svetlana Alliluyeva
My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. We talked about these things at the dinner table, at their schools, with their friends. -- Serge Schmemann
Cooking is like fashion. Always, I like to try to change. If I'm traveling in a different country - to Australia, the Bahamas, Budapest, Moscow - and I see a new ingredient, I like to try it in a new dish. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different. -- Ralph Boston
I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. -- Daniel Silva
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence. -- Luke Harding
I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true. -- Frank Lampard
I don't like Moscow. It's not my city. -- Oleg Deripaska
One does not go to Moscow to get fat. -- John Updike
I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim. -- Fidel Castro
We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow. -- Alexei Navalny
If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian. -- Sergei Dovlatov
I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow. -- Barry Goldwater
Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations. -- Garry Kasparov
My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this. -- Alisher Usmanov
The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days. -- Alexander Litvinenko
The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement. -- Garry Kasparov
There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong. -- Dasha Zhukova
We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow. -- Klement Gottwald
The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow. -- Garry Kasparov
Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one. -- Bob Hope
The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism. -- Bobby Knight
I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria. -- Martin Schulz
As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical. -- Vladimir Sorokin
I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way. -- Edward Snowden
[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again. -- Vladimir Putin
We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies. -- Francisco Franco
As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it. -- Ivan Konev
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state. -- George Mikes
There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might. -- Mary Tyler Moore
I introduced myself thus: My name is Moscow Moonlove. My friends call me Moss, Cow, Moo, Moon, or Tigerpants. -- Jarod Kintz
Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts! -- Alexander Pushkin
Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow. -- Dick Beddoes
The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein. -- Carl I. Hagen
I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow) -- Ronald Reagan
When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see whats ahead of them. -- Arkady Volozh
When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see what's ahead of them. -- Arkady Volozh
Not that I dislike McDonalds, but things must be pretty bad in Moscow if people are willing to wait three hours for large fries. -- Mark Patinkin
If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York. -- Roman Abramovich
I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first. -- John Gunther
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh? -- P. G. Wodehouse
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?" -- P. G. Wodehouse
My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting. -- Chris Hadfield
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China. -- Bernard Law Montgomery
And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow. -- Dennis Miller
The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow. -- Margaret Thatcher
Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games. -- Eduardo Paes
The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies. -- Alexander Vassiliev
New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow. -- David Hallberg
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You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah! -- Taylor Swift
Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive. -- Daley Thompson
Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special. -- Oprah Winfrey
The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity -- Mikhail Bakunin
What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children. -- Lord Robertson
[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before. -- Ross Perot
Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan, .. until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in war operations on the Taliban side. -- Sergei Ivanov
If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step. -- Kenneth Branagh
The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all. -- Newt Gingrich
My mother gave up everything for me. In Yekaterinburg, she had a job and an apartment in the centre of the city and her whole life. And in Moscow - nothing. -- Julia Lipnitskaya
I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how's it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying. -- Dee Snider
I was in Moscow and I will tell you - you can get along with those people and get along with them well. You can make deals with those people. Obama can't. -- Donald Trump
When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow. -- James A. Michener
The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet. -- Andy Warhol
If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel. -- David Zaslav
Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt. -- Peter Kenyon
In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow. -- Liz Garbus
I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow. -- David E. Hoffman
The Moscow of these pageants is the old core city with its buildings of pastel hues and white trim that, with the season's continual dustings of snow, appear to be the work of confectioners -- Warren Hoge
Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it. -- Marjorie M. Liu
Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation. -- Khaled Mashal
Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy. -- Timur Bekmambetov
The Democrat Party of the 1980s chose the Soviet Union over Ronald Reagan, in Nicaragua, and in Moscow as well. Now, all of a sudden, they don't like Russia and they don't like the Soviet Union? -- Rush Limbaugh
I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
I love the dancers in the Bolshoi, but all of my Moscow friends are outside the company. A friend introduced me to Vika Gazinskaya, a well-known Russian designer. I met her group. The rest is history. -- David Hallberg
If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked? -- Svetlana Kuznetsova
The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down. -- Luke Harding
Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward. -- Jean Chretien
Your washing machine is my bathtub. Every time I see you my heart spins with desire. YA by nosit' Moskvu shtany dlya vas, kak drozh' babushki. (I'd wear Moscow as pants for you, like a shivering grandma.) -- Jarod Kintz
If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward. -- Vladimir Putin
The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam. -- Ivan Krastev
However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik) -- Jose Raul Capablanca
White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking. -- Edith Sitwell
The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies. -- Ted Cruz
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
I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration! -- Brian Blessed
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra) -- Ronald Reagan
There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you something else almost as curious. -- Truman Capote
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical success. Where religion has opposed the findings of science, it has almost always had to retreat. -- Nevill Francis Mott
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical success. Where religion has opposed the findings of science, it has almost always had to retreat. -- Nevill Francis Mott
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