Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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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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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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I lived in Moscow for four years and really, really enjoyed it, and I have a really deep love for the Russian language and Russian culture.
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I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
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I was frustrated at myself, not with the team.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters
