Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
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Each time I'm training and sparring, I'm always pushing myself to submit my training partners.
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I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.
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Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it.
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Just because you don't have a prince, doesn't mean your not a princess.
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The next Prince might just get really good at something else.
