Quincy Jones Quotes

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

Quincy Jones

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Disease
  • Sensitive

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Mistake
  • Without
  • Taxation

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Important
  • Truth
  • American

• I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Know
  • Couple
  • Trump

• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  

  Kal Penn
  • World
  • Space
  • Like

• We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Life
  • You
  • Here

• When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Old
  • Him
  • Bond

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.

  

  Peter T. King
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Mind
  • Serious
  • Giggle

• The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • Cool
  • Player
  • Baseball

• Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Respect