Clive Davis Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I'm not saving lives.
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And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
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I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
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My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
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I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
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I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
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There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.
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I never have celebrity crushes.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
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I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.
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Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.
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To this day, there's nobody, nobody that sounds like Janice Joplin.
