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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Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
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I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
