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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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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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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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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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 don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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When John Lennon sings, 'Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open' - these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.
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You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
