David Geffen Quotes

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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.

  David Geffen

  People, Imagination, Imagine

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• Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

  David Geffen

  Happiness, Money, Thinking

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• I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

  David Geffen

  Able, Talent, Enjoy

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• In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

  David Geffen

  Want, Failing, Los Angeles

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• The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

  David Geffen

  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Scratches

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• Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

  David Geffen

  People, Made

  "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 intend to be me. Whatever that is.

  David Geffen

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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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  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

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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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  Easy, Economy, Hard

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• Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

  David Geffen

  Lying, Ease

  "Obama's Big Screen Test". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2007.

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• I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

  David Geffen

  Kids, Arrogance, Draws

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• I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

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  Motivational, Optimistic, Morris

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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 Geffen

  War, Mistake, Typical

  Interview with Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, February 21, 2007.

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• I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

  David Geffen

  Today, Music Industry, Industry

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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.

  David Geffen

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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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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  Artist, People, Trying

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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.

  David Geffen

  Bob, Economy, Dylan

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• My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

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  Mother, Business, Work

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• To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

  David Geffen

  United States, Able, Privilege

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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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  School, Guy, Wizards

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• I`m not Sammy Glick. I`ve never killed anyone. I don`t have to. I`m too talented.

  David Geffen

  Economy

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• I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

  David Geffen

  Believe, People, Denial

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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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  Incredibles, Easy, Economy

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• Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

  David Geffen

  Economy, Amount

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• Broke is a Hollywood term!

  David Geffen

  Hollywood, Broke, Term

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