Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
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I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
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I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
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When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.
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I make film to make time pass.
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But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
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That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.
