Jimmy Iovine Quotes
The media people need to have real tech people, and the tech people need media people. Otherwise, you have the 'Star Wars' bar on Tatooine with everyone fighting.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.
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My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.
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'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.
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If the 19th century was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the 'collective' century, and therefore the century of the state.
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The media people need to have real tech people, and the tech people need media people. Otherwise, you have the 'Star Wars' bar on Tatooine with everyone fighting.
