Jimmy Iovine Quotes
Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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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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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.
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Most of the friends you trust are those you've known for 10 years.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.
