Quincy Jones Quotes

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

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• A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.

  

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• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

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• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

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• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

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• The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

  

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• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

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• You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

  

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• Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

  

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• Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

  

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• Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.

  

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• I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

  

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• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

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• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  

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• I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

  

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• Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

  

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• Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

  

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• World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

  

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• I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.

  

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• My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.

  

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• It was so much fun to work with the cast on 'School of Rock'. I was a little nervous because it was my first acting gig, but it was such a great experience.

  

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• My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Real
  • Brother