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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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
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I had a style before I was signed, but now I'm developing my commercial sound as well as trying to strike a balance between authentic music and music that the masses will love.
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In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
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I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?
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Yes, every act of obedience is an act of worship." he said. "But why don't we learn that sooner? Why do we waste our lives before we learn how to live?" "I am sure," he returned, "that we do not learn as fast as we are willing to learn. God does not force instruction upon us, but when we say as Luther did, 'More light, Lord, more light,' the light comes." I questioned myself after he had gone as to whether this could be true of me. Is there not in my heart some secret reluctance to know the truth lest that knowledge should call to a higher and a holier life than I have yet tried?
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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.
