Quincy Jones Quotes
Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?Quincy Jones
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
Calvin Johnson -
I was unbelievably lucky.
Wendy Hiller -
There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
Felicia Day -
Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
Gabourey Sidibe -
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
Taylor Swift -
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
Harold MacMillan -
I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
Samuel Larsen -
If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
Ram Dass -
You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
Adam Brown -
Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
Natasha Richardson
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
Rafael Palmeiro -
I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
Foster Friess -
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
Ian Hart -
I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
Carice van Houten
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We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.
M. Shadows -
There's obviously a sense of responsibility that comes with having this following and having fans, and so there's a lot of stuff that I won't dare to post, just because I want to be a good influence.
Cameron Dallas -
A lot of the greatest artists, their work is always about life and the world. I think there needs to be that for video games.
Jenova Chen -
Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
Quincy Jones