Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
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17) No technique works if it isn't used.
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My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.
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You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
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My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
