Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
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I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
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My mom is a gym teacher, and she's not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
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I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
