Alisher Usmanov Quotes
It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
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I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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Physical development fosters learning.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.
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I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
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It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.
