Quincy Jones Quotes
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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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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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act.
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I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
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I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
