Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: May 31, 1948

Topics

FreedomRedFindingWayStripesOut

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Steve Jobs

TodayInternetApplePhoneThree

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Mary Douglas

PowerProblemsIslamAlwaysHad

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

Michel Legrand

TryListenRadioOutSomethingTap

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

Lucy Liu

FunnyDatingVintageWhyEverything

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.

Liz Phair

MusicPeopleThinkNewsDoneFair

Bathrooms have always been a big issue in my life. My parents fought for me to be able to enroll in elementary school as a girl, which I did. But I still would not be allowed to use the girls' room under any condition.

Jazz Jennings

LifeGirlSchoolParentsMeMy Life

Humility is truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

TruthHumility

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Brian Eno

GoodAnythingPopulistPopular

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

Art Buchwald

WaterLikePowderMixedTastes

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

Asia Argento

MeYouHumanSeeHuman Condition

Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.

Allison Anders

PeopleLovedWeekendMouthNobody

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Norman McLaren

RelationshipIntimacyCanvasSame

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