David Geffen Quotes
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
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People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
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It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.
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I was actually tone deaf until I had tumors in my ears - I had very small ear canals - removed. Once they fixed that, I was actually able to sing in a pleasant manner.
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I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.
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As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy.
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Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
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Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
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Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.
