David Geffen Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.”
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“My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.”
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“I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.”
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“In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.”
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“I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.”
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“You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.”
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“I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.”
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“I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.”
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“Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.”
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“I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.”
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“To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.”
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“I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I`ve known in my life. That`s just the truth.”
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“It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.”
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“I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.”
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“It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.”
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“HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.”
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“I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.”
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“Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.”
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“Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.”
-- David GeffenSource : "Obama's Big Screen Test". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2007.
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“In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.”
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“It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't,”
-- David GeffenSource : Interview with Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, February 21, 2007.
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“Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.”
-- David GeffenSource : "TCA 2012: David Geffen on the Waning Power of Stars, Crazy Rumors and What's Wrong With Hollywood" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 22, 2012.
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“I`m not Sammy Glick. I`ve never killed anyone. I don`t have to. I`m too talented.”
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“The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.”
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“The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.”
-- David Geffen
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