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David Geffen

"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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"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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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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