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 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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.
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I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.
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In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
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The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
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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.
