Quincy Jones Quotes
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.
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Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
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I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.
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Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.
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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
