Jimmy Iovine Quotes
All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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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 love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.
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I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
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Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.
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Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
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All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.
