Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
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I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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Rejoice! Rejoice!
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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
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To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
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I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do.
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I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.
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A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
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3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?
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Meditation is waiting on God.
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You don't get a lot of life milestones in show business. It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times you don't know you're at the end of something. With Mr. Show, I was only a writer and we knew we were going into the movie, and we thought, "Okay, like Monty Python, we're going to make five movies." And we didn't know it was the end. So it ended up being a bummer and such a terrible ending for Mr. Show. We never got to feel like, "Wow, we did it! We did something."
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Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.
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When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.
