Clive Davis Quotes
The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I'm easily entertained.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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People in the U.S. welcome us. We're solving their employment problems.
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A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.
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Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.
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The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.
