Ahmet Ertegun Quotes

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

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• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

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• At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

  

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• It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.

  

  Fat Joe
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• I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

  

  Abel Ferrara
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• I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.

  

  Adam Michnik
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• I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  

  Orson Welles
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• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
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• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
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• It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
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• We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.

  

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• Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

  

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• Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• I'm Canadian, so I'm a big fan of the Canadian tuxedo - that's what we call it. I wear it all the time.

  

  Brad Goreski
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• I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.

  

  Andrew Lau
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• I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

  

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• Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt, that atheists are as plentiful as blackberries.

  

  Leslie Stephen
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• Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
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