Alexander Lebedev Quotes

Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.

Alexander Lebedev

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• I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Government
  • Parent

• All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Value
  • Religion
  • Islam

• I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Something
  • Writer

• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Country
  • Children

• What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Up
  • Government

• I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Tennis
  • Table

• A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Beautiful
  • Gold
  • New

• When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Movie

• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Always

• We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Band
  • Better

• I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Violence

• In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Picture

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• I see myself as mom first. I'm so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I'm happy.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.

  

  Kanye West
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Past
  • Confused

• It means something to the fans; it's territorial bragging rights for them.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Fans
  • Rights

• Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.

  

  Alexander Lebedev
  • Facts
  • Emotions
  • Speculation