Clive Davis Quotes
The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Time was God's first creation.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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Glamour is really fun.
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When I bought companies, it was done on trust, on a one-on-one basis, and with the intention of taking care of employees. Today, it's about who can bid the highest. There's no personal interest. It's a different world and one that an entrepreneur like me doesn't like much.
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Nothing brings me more joy than when people love what I do.
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Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
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The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.
