Oleg Deripaska famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
-- Oleg Deripaska

#Cities #Moscow
Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
-- Oleg Deripaska

#Believe #Russia #Long
Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself... I have very strong security.
-- Oleg Deripaska

#Strong #Military #Army
I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
-- Oleg Deripaska

#Math #Winning #Discipline
My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.
-- Oleg Deripaska

#Summer #Jobs #Maintenance

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldnâ€™t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.
I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

Oleg Deripaska famous quotes

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