Alisher Usmanov Quotes
I am ready to help (Uzbekistan) in any way possible and I am already helping, My role today is advice, consulting, and charitable projects
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
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None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
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The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.
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The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.
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Going to spring break at Ft. Lauderdale, getting drunk and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of a patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to know she is even in distress.
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When asked if he gets advice from other musicians, quoted in **Heroes & Villains: Jerry Cantrell. Louder Sound (July 16, 2014).
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Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
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The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.
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The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.
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For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
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I believe film and television should reflect our society, and the reality is that there are people in many different shapes and sizes, ethnicities, sexual orientation - the list goes on.
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Obviously, off the court, he's had some issues. He would be the first to say, 'Why? Why did I do that?' But one, his players graduate; two, they learn how to be men; and three, they learn how to contribute in life. Look at all those Indiana graduates contributing to society.
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I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as harshly as I judge myself, so I need to give myself a break.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
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I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.
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I am ready to help (Uzbekistan) in any way possible and I am already helping, My role today is advice, consulting, and charitable projects
