Alisher Usmanov Quotes
I am not the king of the Internet. Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, Grishin, Durov are its kings. And I'm an Internet's merchant and its fan.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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It's very, very important to wash off makeup. Like, really wash it off - I used to be really bad and leave some on when I would go to bed, but it's so important to get it all off.
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Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
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Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
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I love the characters you can build upon when you wear different things. You know, sometimes, I'll want to be girly and wear tulle on a Tuesday, and sometimes I wanna be like Kim Kardashian and wear black leather head-to-toe.
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I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.
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There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of coffee. Believe me, I've been all over the world. There's no place like that but New York City.
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I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.
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People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
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Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.
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It's so hard to predict the political environment. I think that business can't sit on the sidelines and just watch. I think we need to be a force for the values that we believe in. We need to partner with government and regulators.
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I am not the king of the Internet. Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, Grishin, Durov are its kings. And I'm an Internet's merchant and its fan.
