Shep Gordon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The three most important things a manager does: One is get the money. Two is always remember to get the money. Three is never forget to always remember to get the money.
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I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so that they can actually be in a fiduciary capacity where the artist comes first or the client, whoever the client happens to be.
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I've always warned my clients about fame being very dangerous, and unfortunately, they need to be famous to make a living, but not to be flippant with it, that it could kill them, and to always keep their eye on it. There was no reason for me to do it. I don't make my money off fame, not my fame.
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I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving to everyone. And then, as I got into my career, I started and other people started to realize that I was good at it.
-- Shep Gordon
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
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What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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