Quincy Jones Quotes
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.Quincy Jones
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
Imran Amed -
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Yael Naim -
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
Yogi Berra -
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
Gary Lineker -
I enjoy my life.
Marat Safin
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
Rachel Kushner -
I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
Ja Rule -
When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
Natalie Dormer -
I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
Dan Futterman -
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne McGregor -
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. Kinsella
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
Maggie Grace -
I'm really just a normal person.
Vanna White -
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Immanuel Kant -
Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
Owen Hart -
My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
Rand Paul -
God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
Victoria Osteen
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
Becky G -
I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
Mahesh Babu -
If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.
Ben Harper -
When we fight we're going to fight fight, for real fight. He thinks he's the ninja, I'm the ninja- Ninja Gaiden, American ninja, real motherfucking ninja. This ninja martial artist right here-I started that shit.
Nate Diaz -
The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe.
William Howard Taft -
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
Quincy Jones