Alisher Usmanov Quotes
I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.
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It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
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Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
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In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.
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There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.
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I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
