Absurd Quote by Jaak Kilmi Download Open image “Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children.” — Jaak Kilmi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Children Life Soviet
Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor,… — Alina Bronsky Copy Share Image
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into anti-Communism. This… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
During the entire communist era, communist ideology was imposed on children. That was Bolshevism. — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Working under the Soviet system made you very paranoid - people were afraid of everything - and this paranoia is still in people's minds. — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
It was life under the Soviet system - we were struggling with every big problem. Publicly, my parents had to queue up to buy… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to make propaganda… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union wasn't so closed - it wasn't North Korea. It was a practical system. People were creative and industrious, so if they… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't want to… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
