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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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
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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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We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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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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Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
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When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be black enough. They didn't really know where to put me. The music wasn't 'black black' sounding. It wasn't R&B; it wasn't straight up hip-hop, although obviously in that dimension and world.
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You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.
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I love hanging out at home with my kid. It's hard to get me to leave the house.
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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.'
