David Geffen
David Geffen
David Lawrence Geffen is an American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, and philanthropist. Geffen created or co-created Asylum Records in 1970, Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and DreamWorks SKG in 1994. His donations to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and other educational and research donations have widened his fame beyond the entertainment industry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth21 February 1943
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
David Geffen quotes about
I`m not Sammy Glick. I`ve never killed anyone. I don`t have to. I`m too talented.
I intend to be me. Whatever that is.
I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.
Everybody in politics lies.
I am truly my mother's son.
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
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.
I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
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 the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.
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.
Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. 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.
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.
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
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,