Quincy Jones Quotes
I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
Quincy Jones
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
Palaniappan Chidambaram
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
Karen Finerman
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But I think we need the international market.
Zhang Yimou
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
Ice T
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
Hans Jonas
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
Vernon Jordan
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Fashion is constantly changing from decade to decade, but I don't see a change in how many black faces I see on the runway, and it's something we should talk about because it's a problem.
Jessica White
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O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
J. C. Ryle
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What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover.
Arthur Symons
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Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.
Zach Braff
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He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".
William Gaddis
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I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
Quincy Jones