Quincy Jones Quotes
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
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We've established a free marketplace of teacher ideas and donor interests.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.
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I know this is a physical game. But the mental part of it is so important. It's important for me and important for the team.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.