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.'
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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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.
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
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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.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.
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What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.
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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.
