Ahmet Ertegun Quotes

When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.

Ahmet Ertegun

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The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

Jim James

YouAlwaysTellSomethingDifferent

I do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.

Joel Edgerton

BestInternetKnowOne ThingRead

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

Anatoly Karpov

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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Max Lerner

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The libertarian position I once propended now seems to me seriously inadequate, in part because it did not fully knit the humane considerations and joint cooperative activities it left room for more closely into its fabric.

Robert Nozick

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I really actually started when I was 10 years old, but before that, I loved to play with Father because he played as an ex-player. I just enjoyed it, so I started at 10 years old with Father to be a proper football player.

Son Heung-min

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I work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent reading scripts and looking at designing sequences, speaking to directors and producers about how they want the sequences to look, how they will work and budgeting those stunts.

Steve Truglia

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I am a huge fan of gays. They love me, and I love them. They think of me as sort of a gay icon.

Tori Spelling

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I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

Tom Kitt

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The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Rodney Dangerfield

FunnyLuckWayHonestPolitician

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

Robert Walpole

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They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.

Michael Strahan

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