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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.
People said I wouldn't be in the NBA. People said I wouldn't be a starting center, this, that and the other. I just prove people wrong.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
There always will be stereotypes that women can't drive. When I hear the comments, it just makes me more determined to prove them wrong.
I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.
Each one of us has his own place in the industry. I've been able to prove that you don't necessarily have to be a Khan to be successful!
I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well.
As F1 is a male-dominated environment, you have to prove yourself. And first of all that means being given the chance to prove yourself.
When people doubt your right to be somewhere, the responsibility falls on you to prove over and over again that you deserve to be there.
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
It doesn't matter what kind of body you have, it's the determination and the spirit that's going to get you there. I want to prove that.
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.
The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.
Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.
The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.
I have performed all over the world to packed audiences. I don't have to be a trained musician to prove my singing abilities to my critics.
The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
Seedorf is doing well, and I am happy for him. I hope he stays at Milan so that he can prove how much he really understands about football.
I have had it all over the years, being told I'm not good enough. So whenever the chance comes I always try and prove I should be starting.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.
Every hundred year, mother make baby like Iron Sheik, Michael Jordan and the Jesus. Only one chance to prove you are the real in a lifetime.
I've seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can execute is by executing.
The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and prove their mettle before I can sell them.
I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.
Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.
Of course, my children have my full support but they'll have to work hard and prove themselves if they want to make a career in film industry.
I don't really like those houses where someone's put up all their old football trophies and whatever; you know, what are they trying to prove?
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.
Trying times will begin when I will take up my second film as that's when people will take me more seriously. I will have to prove myself too.
They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.
A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.
Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.'
You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.
What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong.
Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.