Clive Davis Quotes
The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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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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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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A great American city is fighting for its life.
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The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.
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There's nothing at the center of what we do.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
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The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.
