Jimmy Iovine Quotes
Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.
Quotes to Explore
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.
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Hayek's work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project. … One can't understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.
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I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.
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It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.
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Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.
