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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

— Vagit Alekperov

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

— Richard Linklater

I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.

— Harold Hamm

According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.

— Josh Fox

My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research.

— Renny Harlin

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

— Donna Mills

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.

— Bill Moseley

In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.

— Patti Stanger

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.

— Sam Brownback