Ahmet Ertegun Quotes

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

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• Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Good
  • Thought

• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Vision
  • Talk
  • Forward

• People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Religion
  • Name

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • You
  • Spotlight

• From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Night

• You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Done
  • Know
  • Religion

• You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • World
  • Important
  • Mother

• The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Change
  • Flower

• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Promise

• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Know
  • Distance
  • Loyal

• It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Hope
  • Age

• While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Important
  • Internet
  • India

• The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • People
  • Different
  • Today

• I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Good
  • Always
  • Trouble

• New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Music
  • Friends
  • House

• I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • America
  • Rest
  • Military

• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

  

  Aaron Siskind

• I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • World
  • She
  • Power

• My feelings about Michael Jackson are simple I think that um he's a human being like everyone else and I'm a huge fan of Michael and um nobody is perfect.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Thinking
  • Perfect
  • Simple

• I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
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  • Fans
  • Jazz