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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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
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I actually have been really influenced by dance music.
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So, I was sitting there and I watched 'Paranormal Activity' and I was like, 'Boy, white people do dumb stuff in movies.' So I was like, 'Why don't they just leave the house... What if paranormal activity happened to a black couple?'
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What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up' and who truly tries to live his life to that credo - we recruited 16 people who said, 'I will never give up.' And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
