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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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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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 never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.
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I'm not a robot.
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We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.
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The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.
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Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
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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.
