Quotes About David Geffen

#1. People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Keanu Reeves

#2. I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis.

Puff Daddy

#3. There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#4. My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.

Don McLean

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

David Geffen

#6. Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

David Geffen

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

David Geffen

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

David Geffen

#9. Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

David Geffen

#10. 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!

David Geffen

#11. 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

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

David Geffen

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

David Geffen

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

David Geffen

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

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

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#18. 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.

David Geffen

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

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#20. Broke is a Hollywood term!

David Geffen

#21. 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.

David Geffen

#22. 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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#23. HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

David Geffen

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

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

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

David Geffen

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

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#28. 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

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

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

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

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

David Geffen