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MIKE D Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in s...
STEPHEN KINZER
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY
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The relationship with Atlantic Records was always a personal one. Our friend and mentor, Ahmet Erteg... GRAHAM NASH
My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That&... SARAH GADON In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept w...
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I loved those cats at Atlantic. They were the only record guys who never told me what to do. Ahmet (... RAY CHARLES
My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survive... RICHARD BRANSON
We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war,... STEPHEN HAWKING My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been...
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When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
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If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i... DAVID CASSIDY Our father was exposed to Agent Orange during the war.
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I love a good breakfast - grits and eggs, French toast, turkey bacon. My grandmother on my father... TYLER PERRY My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva ...
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My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in m... ISABEL ALLENDE My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - whe...
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My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they ...
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Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman. CORITA KENT I will share a personal experience: my father was posted in Jammu & Kashmir during the Kargil wa...
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Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I mov... DAVID JOHANSEN I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There...
JACK WHITEHALL From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly wh...
TIM O'BRIEN
It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these g... JACK ANDERSON
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known th... J. G. BALLARD I've never had a particularly sweet tooth. In fact, during the war, I used to swap my sweet rati...
JUNE WHITFIELD I am certain that Gadi Lesin's abilities and the experience he accumulated during his sixteen ye...
OFRA STRAUSS
I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead... JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK
My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the... BOBBIE ANN MASON For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on whic...
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TERI GARR
The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It wa... PATTI DAVIS
My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation. MARCEL DUCHAMP
We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at bo... ED WEEKS
My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew togethe... NOAM CHOMSKY
I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix... TREVOR NOAH
I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth... JOHN SHELBY SPONG I joined Hadassah because I knew they did wonderful work, ... My own father was a physician and buil...
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My Hellboy is modeled on my father in some ways: a guy who's been in the Korean War, and he'... MIKE MIGNOLA
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. T... GEOFF MULGAN
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH
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UZO ADUBA My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was ...
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There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the mi... PHIL KLAY
I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to... DAVID O. RUSSELL
But the love of adventure was in father's blood. BUFFALO BILL My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti...
PAUL ROBESON
..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understa... BOB DYLAN
The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m...
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Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that... PHIL LESH I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being...
AHMET ERTEGUN I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessaril...
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AHMET ERTEGUN America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I ...
AHMET ERTEGUN You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
AHMET ERTEGUN My first wife was a theater person.
AHMET ERTEGUN When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't s...
AHMET ERTEGUN The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest...
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AHMET ERTEGUN I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even b...
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AHMET ERTEGUN Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
AHMET ERTEGUN It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in T...
AHMET ERTEGUN I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the ...
AHMET ERTEGUN Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very ...
AHMET ERTEGUN As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and ex...
AHMET ERTEGUN
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI
