Quincy Jones Quotes
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
