Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
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I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. If you're sure of your moral code, your moral code is personal. Something that I admire about my TV character is being unapologetic and knowing who she is. That was empowering to play.
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I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.
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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
