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 worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
