Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I don't care about revenues.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
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I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.
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Our silence is deafening and deadly.
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Whenever I do my concerts, I try to do master classes or students.
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I probably would never be caught wearing a baseball cap. Hats are difficult to me because they tend to be too big for my head. They don't fit right, and I feel ridiculous.
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If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
