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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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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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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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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Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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I want to make vegetables a bit cooler and help people see them as something that can be an interesting, delicious addition to any meal, but that doesn't mean you should feel you only need to eat broccoli!
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Sometimes you can see a pilot, and then when the series starts, it's different people. That's always possible.
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Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.
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I've spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very constructive in their approach - those who enforce the laws and who actually want to help you comply - and there are others who have a prosecutorial attitude.
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A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
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Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.
