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 don't know how people recognize me.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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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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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
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I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
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There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
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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.
