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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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 was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
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I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!
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The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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The story behind every song is individual to itself.
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When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.
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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.
