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I collect things that just look retarded.
— Ahmet Zappa
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
— Ahmet Ertegun
My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
— Ahmet Ertegun
Today the search for a new global order is under way.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
Our future is our sense of common destiny.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
— Ahmet Ertegun
The following story if fiction.
What actually happened was worse. — Ahmet M. Rahmanovic
What actually happened was worse. — Ahmet M. Rahmanovic
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
— Ahmet Ertegun
As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
— Ahmet Ertegun
It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
— Ahmet Ertegun
My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.
— Ahmet Zappa
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
— Ahmet Zappa
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
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.
— Ahmet Necdet Sezner
I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
— Ahmet Ertegun
Musa pushed Hamza along. "Should we hurry too?"
"No need to. You never know if you're running from a bomb or towards one. — Ahmet M. Rahmanovic
"No need to. You never know if you're running from a bomb or towards one. — Ahmet M. Rahmanovic
The beauty of a landscape resides in its melancholy.
— Ahmet Rasim
My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.
— Ahmet Zappa
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
— Ahmet Ertegun
There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
— Ahmet Ertegun
Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
— Ahmet Ertegun
We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000.
— Ahmet Ertegun
Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.
— Ahmet Ertegun
At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.
— Ahmet Zappa
My first wife was a theater person.
— Ahmet Ertegun
Some things are difficult to adapt to.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
A sense of politics is for politicians. I am satisfied with the sense of truth
— Ahmet M. Rahmanovic
I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.
— Ahmet Zappa
I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
— Ahmet Zappa
We're not sure if he's alive. Nobody has the guts to check it out.
— Ahmet M. Rahmanovic
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
— Ahmet Ertegun
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
— Ahmet Necdet Sezner
It is a great life, this life of music,
— Ahmet Ertegun
Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
— Ahmet Necdet Sezner
The Chetniks! Everybody helped them, the whole world. By not helping Bosnia
— Ahmet M. Rahmanovic
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
— Ahmet Zappa
I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.
— Ahmet Zappa
'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.
— Ahmet Necdet Sezner
There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.
— Ahmet Ertegun
An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
— Ahmet Ertegun
The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters
— Ahmet Ertegun