Quincy Jones Quotes
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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It takes three to make a child.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?
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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
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In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
