Clive Davis Quotes
You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
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That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
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Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.
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The heart ran o'erWith silent worship of the great of old! The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still ruleOur spirits from their urns.
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We need to intensify cooperation with civilized governments all over the world to combat the common threat of terrorism.
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Black and ugly as ever, however I stay Coogi down to the socks, rings and watch filled with Rocks.
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Five tankers-and the only time I had to put my hand in my pocket was to scratch my balls.
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Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
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It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening.
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Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's.
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All men - even, I have written, Jesus Christ - began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
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You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.
