Quincy Jones Quotes
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
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When you get your opportunities, you've just got to go with what they said... I'll do what's necessary wherever they put me.
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I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
