Clive Davis Quotes

You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.

Clive Davis

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Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

Jimmy Fallon

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Love's tongue is in his eyes.

John Fletcher

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Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Mason Cooley

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What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.

Moby

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Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Constance Baker Motley

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The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.

Anne Reid

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I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

Norman Finkelstein

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My aim is that each of my films should be on the top five or, at least, the top 10 lists of the year.

Nivin Pauly

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I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

Griffin Dunne

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I always wish for more time at home or at the restaurants or on the shows.

Guy Fieri

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I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.

Hozier

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