Jimmy Iovine Quotes

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

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• When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Past

• I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Creativity
  • Creative
  • Create

• Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Grow
  • U.S.
  • Must

• When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Wisdom

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Pretty

• I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Career
  • Research
  • Going

• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • Law
  • Best

• If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Hate

• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it's definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I'm sorted I've got good people around me.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Me
  • Mean
  • Fantastic

• The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Action
  • Revolution

• Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America's most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, 'Death to America.' If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.

  

  Bill Flores
  • World
  • Important
  • America

• Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

  

  Jamie Zawinski
  • Running

• I always give respect to and pay homage to New York, because I don't feel like I would be the player that I am today if it wasn't for New York City. It gives you a certain edge, a certain toughness just growing up in the city.

  

  Joakim Noah
  • Up
  • Today
  • Growing

• Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

  

  Andrea Martin
  • High
  • Quality

• The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
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