Jimmy Iovine Quotes
I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They get a little more confident. They step back and say, 'Okay, now we're gonna do it.'
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.
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Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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Bear patiently with a rival.
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
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I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.
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I find myself asking questions that as a filmmaker I never thought I would ask. Like I get a call from a magazine for a feature and my first question is, 'Cover or not?' Interview invite from a leading channel? I have stopped asking the topic. I'm just like 'Primetime or not?' If I am invited and put in the second row, I can be distraught for days!
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.
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It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.
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If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
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I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.
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I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They get a little more confident. They step back and say, 'Okay, now we're gonna do it.'
