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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Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.
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We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
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I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
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I think there are those individuals who are intimidated by really smart, talented people. But for me, surrounding yourself with great talent is the key to success.
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Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
