Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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I hate competition.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
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Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.
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Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
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Hillary Clinton is a threat to the rule of law and to our safety and security.
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It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
