David Geffen Quotes
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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Some guys just slip under the radar.
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I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
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When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.
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I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
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In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
