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Alexei Mordashov Quotes

Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.

Alexei Mordashov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: russian
Birth: September 26, 1965

Topics

Great Football I Am Me Building

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.

Jess Walter

Poetry Me I Can Say Write Well

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

Robert Gottlieb

Strong Pretending Point Pieces

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.

RJ Mitte

People Influence You Your Around

I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

Julia Mancuso

Swimming Go Surfing Come Paddling

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

Jason Priestley

Love Government I Am Canada Never

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

Don Henley

First Drums Record Played

My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it.

Debra Granik

Reading Partner Rock Abandonment

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

Colm Toibin

Live Imagination Words Looking Like

Mountains are freedom. Treat them respectfully.

Conrad Anker

Freedom Mountains Treat Them

The crafting of lyrics is really a task, and when it comes to street culture, I don't feel like anyone else articulates it better than me.

Pusha T

Culture Me Better Feel Street Task

Most producers who want you to dance are not looking at the long term. They see their evenings, the box office, whom they have to repay, whatever.

Sylvie Guillem

Dance Looking Long You Want Office

I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.

Per Petterson

Music Age Culture Politics Me World