Jimmy Iovine Quotes
I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
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Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.
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In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
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We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
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The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.
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If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.
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Of course no documentary is completely 'objective.' Every decision you make - who to interview, how to edit, where to hold the camera - imposes a point of view on the film.
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I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'
