Alisher Usmanov Quotes
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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America has the best hand ever dealt to any country on this planet, ever. Yes, we have problems, but you travel around the world, you'll see we have it all.
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You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.
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There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
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I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.
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It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal.
