Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
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Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
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My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.'
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I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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Every time I'm preparing a new production, I'm trying to reinvent my style and offer the audience several choices.
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Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.
