Alisher Usmanov Quotes

We believe that justice conquers all, even if sometimes life's not enough for it.

Alisher Usmanov

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• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Me
  • Choose
  • Settings

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Help
  • Think
  • Just

• 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?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Never
  • Driving
  • Say

• TV's been good to me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Good
  • Me
  • Been

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• 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.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Myself
  • Speak
  • Modeling

• My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Like
  • Brain
  • Quiet

• '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.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Up
  • Think
  • Down

• I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Debate

• …ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. 2

  

  Tacitus

• Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, interviewer (1998‐03-02). First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?. Retrieved on 2013-06-02.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Free
  • Monday

• I grew up in front of the camera from an early age. It distorts your perception of who you are. Having a lot of attention at a young age is not healthy.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Up
  • Age
  • Attention

• I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.

  

  Li Yuanchao
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Decision

• My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Simple
  • Greed
  • Stupidity

• Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.

  

  Joachim du Bellay
  • Fortune
  • Gone
  • Rivers

• We believe that justice conquers all, even if sometimes life's not enough for it.

  

  Alisher Usmanov
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Fate