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David Geffen

(1943) Film Producer United States

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David Geffen is a film producer from the United States, best known for Along Comes The Association.

Quick Facts About David Geffen

Born: February 21, 1943
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Producer
Notable works: Along Comes The Association

About David Geffen

David Lawrence Geffen is an American film producer, record executive, and media proprietor. In music, he co-founded Asylum Records with Elliot Roberts in 1971 before founding Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and co-founding DreamWorks Records in 1996. In film, he founded the Geffen Film Company in 1982 and co-founded DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg in 1994.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program

Quotes by David Geffen

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They…

Art

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

Dies

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

Inspirational

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Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

California

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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.

Aids

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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.

Ideas

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

Arrogance

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

Both

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Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

Anybody

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

Able

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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…

Business

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Everybody in politics lies.

Inspirational

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

Ease

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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…

Animal

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

Able

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

Believe

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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…

Ability

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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…

Behinds

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I am truly my mother's son.

Mother

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

Morris

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

Happiness

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

Business

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

Industry

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I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

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