Keith Gessen My grandmother was content to sit in the back yard wearing her old, wide-brimmed summer hat and occasionally getting up to feed herself raspberries from the seemingly inexhaustible bushes. – Keith Gessen Bushes Quotes Content Quotes Feed Quotes Grandmother Quotes Hat Quotes Inexhaustible Quotes Occasionally Quotes Raspberries Quotes Seemingly Quotes Sit Quotes Summer Quotes Wearing Quotes Widebrimmed Quotes Yard Quotes In the post-Soviet era, the most interesting work on the Stalinist period has been social history, far beyond the Kremlin walls – the study of what one of its leading practitioners, Sheila Fitzpatrick, in her book ‘Everyday Stalinism,’ called ‘ordinary life in extraordinary times.’ Baba Seva – Seva Efraimovna Gekhtman – was born in a small town in Ukraine in 1919. Her father was an accountant at a textile factory, and her mother was a nurse. Her parents moved to Moscow with her and her brothers when she was a child.
Herbert Croly When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. – Herbert Croly
Steve Miller I’ve demanded respect for myself and my band and my peers, I’ve demanded full artistic control for my music, I advocate for artists and music education wherever I can. And I’m a nice guy. – Steve Miller
Hardik Pandya If not for my family, I’d have lost a great deal of everything. They were and continue to remain the backbone – the women in my family. – Hardik Pandya
Bob Ainsworth Stalin’s policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous. – Bob Ainsworth
Jessica Sanchez I’m playing a powerhouse singer who is big competition, but she’s also really down to earth and sweet. But the whole sweet thing goes away when she’s in competition mode. I love the show, so I’m very excited to be a part of it. I’m going to kill it on ‘Glee!’ – Jessica Sanchez
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