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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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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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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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I guess I will always be known as a designer who references Ibiza, even though I've only been to the island a couple of times in my early twenties.
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I did go to an MFA program, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For me, it worked perfectly. It was a small program. They only take five fiction writers a year, and they fund all of us - you don't go into debt to get an MFA. It's not like getting an MBA - you're not going to buy yourself out.
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If he gimme the word then I'm flippin the bird & then I'm spinnin around & I'm grippin the burn
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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.
