Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
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Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.
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Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
