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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Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.
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Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
