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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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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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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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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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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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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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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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.
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I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.
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I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.
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Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.
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My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.
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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.
