Quincy Jones Quotes
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.Quincy Jones
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
Odeya Rush -
Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
Kate Brown -
I'm not looking to shock anyone.
Victoria Justice -
I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
J. Cole -
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
Nathaniel Kahn
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
Karan Mahajan -
I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
Flume -
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
Hans Haacke -
My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
Ted Danson -
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
Taiye Selasi -
But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
Lactantius
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson -
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Dalai Lama -
Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
Flip Wilson -
I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.
Candy Crowley -
It's not healthy to be jealous.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson -
The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
Pete Hamill -
I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor
Dan Abnett -
My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.
Brian Kilmeade -
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
Quincy Jones