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Mari Vanna
“Is there good Russian food? Yeah, I like Mari Vanna, which is a restaurant on East 21st, I think.”
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“Is there good Russian food? Yeah, I like Mari Vanna, which is a restaurant on East 21st, I think.”
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01 / recommendation
“Is there good Russian food? Yeah, I like Mari Vanna, which is a restaurant on East 21st, I think.”
02 / belief
“Either he leaves the office alive or he leaves office dead. [laughter] I think he plans to be in office for life.”
03 / belief
“I think that the effect, and the desired effect, would be total informational isolation of the Russian public.”
04 / belief
“I think that what made The Americans so good and made it get better as it went on was the psychological depth of not speaking things out, but showing things and showing relationships develop and disintegrate onscreen without everything having to be spelled out.”
05 / belief
“I think that the anti-gay campaign that has been a centerpiece of Russian politics for the last now seven years is completely Kremlin manufactured.”
06 / belief
“As teenagers, they started bringing friends home, and I realized that these young people had no experience socializing with people their parents’ ages.”
07 / belief
“I think that Russia, at breaking points when it could have developed a democracy or a semidemocracy, actually started this totalitarian experiment.”
08 / belief
“I’ve never thought of it in terms of constraint. I think that he has a natural inclination for economy, an economy of means.”
09 / belief
“I think that the best thing I do as a parent — and I do many things not very well — but the best thing I do as a parent is, all my kids have always been included in adult conversations.”
10 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. Throw some at me, and I’ll tell you whether they’re misconceptions or not.”
11 / commitment
“Well, one way it shaped my views is that I’m a pacifist. I think that being a war reporter will do that for you.”
12 / evaluation
“All the countries that joined NATO — without exception — asked to join NATO, begged to join NATO, because they wanted to have protection against Russia, which had colonized them and of which they had good reason to suspect might want to colonize them again, and so they wanted to be a part of NATO.”
13 / evaluation
“It was part of the system. Whether it matters for math, we don’t know. But we know that the extraordinary Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov, who designed the Soviet mathematics education system — he had this idea that it had to be what he imagined Greek schools to have been like.”
14 / evaluation
“But then I ended up deciding to just have the mastectomy. But one of the things I realized — and this is just a small illustration of people’s heuristics — I realized that doctors were pushing women to have oophorectomies, the removal of the ovaries, and not mastectomies because an oophorectomy is a very easy surgery, and you cannot see outward expressions of it.”
15 / evaluation
“I don’t think Nobel Prizes are a great way to measure it because a lot of people come to the United States to do research in university settings and end up winning Nobel Prizes.”
16 / prediction
“I think that the Kremlin is sensitive to that even if they can’t necessarily articulate it.”
17 / commitment
“. And the reason I ended up writing a book is that when I found out I had this deleterious mutation — this was really in the early days of this kind of thing — I realized I couldn’t process information.”
18 / recommendation
“I try to have a sense of the temperature of the air, the flavor of the conversation. That’s where social networks, used strategically, I think, are extremely useful.”
19 / preference
“I don’t know that I agree, but I think that — and this may answer your question — Russian friendships are much more emotional and intense than American friendships.”
20 / evaluation
“” Perelman was the first person that I wrote a book about who didn’t talk to me, and Putin was the second. It was the sense of meeting a character from your book because the experience of writing nonfiction isn’t that different from writing fiction, in the sense that you have all this available information.”