Quincy Jones Quotes
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.
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I wouldn't say I was a massive comic fan growing up, just because I now know people that really are, and I would never claim to be in that same category.
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I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.
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The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
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Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
