David Geffen quotes:

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

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.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

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

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

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.

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,

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

Broke is a Hollywood term!

Everybody in politics lies.

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!

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

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

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

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

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

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

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

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I am truly my mother's son.

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

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

I`m not Sammy Glick. I`ve never killed anyone. I don`t have to. I`m too talented.

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

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

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.

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

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.

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