Jimmy Iovine Quotes
My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
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Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'
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I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.
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I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!
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I really enjoy dressing up. I'm pretty much a girlie girl.
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My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
