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 haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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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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My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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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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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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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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That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
