Quincy Jones Quotes
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.
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When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
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There's no way to explain it. We just got beat up. We're not stop-ping nobody, man. ... And if we can't stop nobody on the defensive end then it's hard to get into any type of running game, easy baskets. Every time they're scoring on us, and we're coming down and playing against a half-court set.
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Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.
