Alisher Usmanov Quotes
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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TV's been good to me.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.
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A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.
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My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'
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Action is movement with intelligence
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Your body is the child of your soul.
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We believe that justice conquers all, even if sometimes life's not enough for it.
