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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When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.
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Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
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Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
