Doug Morris Quotes

It may sound square, but my whole philosophy of running a company can be put in two words: Be nice.

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• My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Want
  • Sin
  • Paint

• Love is more than one thing.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Love
  • More
  • Love Is

• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
  • Leisure

• I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Christian
  • Serious

• I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Important
  • Animals

• Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Think
  • Courage
  • Years

• I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Age

• Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Man
  • Problem
  • Hair

• As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Hate
  • Listen

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Sound

• One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Done
  • She
  • Bad

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• I only know what I read in the papers.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Know
  • Read
  • Only

• When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

• Say something personal, not from a publicist.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Something
  • Say
  • Personal

• Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Poet
  • Isolation

• I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it.

  

  Jay Mohr
  • Hate
  • Golf

• My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'

  

  Simon Callow
  • Mother
  • Nice
  • Church

• I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nice

• Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • Time
  • Children
  • Together

• James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.

  

  Tyrese Gibson
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Practice

• It may sound square, but my whole philosophy of running a company can be put in two words: Be nice.

  

  Doug Morris
  • Nice
  • Philosophy
  • Company