David Geffen Quotes

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

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#2. It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

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

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#4. It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

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

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

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

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

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Broke is a Hollywood term!

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

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#15. I am truly my mother's son.

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

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

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#18. Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

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#19. I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

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#20. 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,

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

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#22. I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

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#23. It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

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#24. 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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#25. To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

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

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#27. 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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#28. Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

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