Clive Davis Quotes
I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.
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I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley and Daniel Dennett. I also spent a year working on a fellowship in a research centre - the Allan Wilson Centre - where I got a hands-on look at their work sequencing DNA.
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Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.
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I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.
