Quincy Jones Quotes
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
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I'm not pessimistic about anything.
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If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
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The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
