#russian

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#heritage #hungarian #music #now #playing

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#early #elementary #elementary school #first #i

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#arabic #areas #behind #chinese #combined

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dynamic #especially #into #kind #orchestra

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#childhood #desks #drop #fortunate #had

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

#authorities #been #book #called #constitution

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#how #men #russians #songs

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#communism #communist #concentration #evil #police

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#american #because #being #either #europe

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks. ↗

— Emo Philips

#evil #i #incompetence #like #office