Mike Medavoy Quotes
The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, "Does that person merit that salary?" The fact is that the business, in my view, has been somewhat bankrupt for years - only the new media made it viable.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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I love recording music.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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There is one alternative to dark matter, and that is the assumption that Newton's laws don't hold over distances as great as galaxies. But we know that Newton's laws hold over a very large domain. And virtually one hundred percent of the physics and astronomy community believes that there is matter in the universe that does not radiate.
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Princes appear to me to be Fools Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.
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You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.
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There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to see the Trump presidency eroding these lines.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.
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I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
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I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.
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The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, "Does that person merit that salary?" The fact is that the business, in my view, has been somewhat bankrupt for years - only the new media made it viable.
