Jimmy Iovine Quotes
You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.
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Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
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My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
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You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
