Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.
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Sometimes when people talk, they don't always tell the truth.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
