Quincy Jones Quotes

Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

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• I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

  

  T. J. Miller
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• Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
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• I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
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• I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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• Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  

  Caleb Cushing
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• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.

  

  Tamar Braxton
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• My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

  

  Mallory Jansen
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• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
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• I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
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• I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.

  

  Ilka Chase
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• I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.

  

  Takashi Murakami
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• The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

  

  Pat Burns
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• I stay around the young boys in the studio; I want to learn from them, and at the same time, I have a lot to offer them.

  

  Fat Joe
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• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
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• For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom.

  

  Tyler Cowen
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• Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

  

  Vance Havner
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• Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

  

  Quincy Jones
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