Ahmet Ertegun Quotes

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

Ahmet Ertegun

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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.

Zoe Saldana
- Time
- Women
- History
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.

Larry Hovis
- Time
- Kind
- Never
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?

Karen Armstrong
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.

Sally Quinn
- People
- Power
- House
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

Feisal Abdul Rauf
- World
- Society
- Faith
I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.

Yvonne Strahovski
- Good
- Never
- Meditation