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.

Alisher Usmanov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
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  • Birth: September 9, 1953

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If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Jim Jarmusch

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I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

Jennifer Lopez

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I'm a closet geek.

Matthew Vaughn

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I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

Anna Deavere Smith

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I'm a proud Brit and a proud Englishman.

Michael Bisping

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All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Spike Lee

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I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.

Mike Dean

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This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Joseph Addison

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No, I'm not running for office someday.

Chris Hughes

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I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

Bob Graham

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Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

Antony Gormley

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