Clive Davis Quotes
I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
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I'm not a very organized person.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
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If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
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I feel like my job as a storyteller and director is to create an experience where the audience forgets they're in a cinema and can get lost in the story. Things popping out of the screen call attention to the artifice of what you're doing, so I use 3D as more of a window into a world behind the screen.
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People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.
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Manfred decides that he’s going to do something unusual for a change: He’s going to make himself temporarily rich. This is a change because Manfred’s normal profession is making other people rich. Manfred doesn’t believe in scarcity or zero-sum games or competition-his world is too fast and information-dense to accommodate primate hierarchy games.
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You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.
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I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.
