Jimmy Iovine Quotes
I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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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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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.
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Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead
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I consider myself an activist who governs.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
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I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.
