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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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
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Fletcher Knebel
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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
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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
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
Naomi Campbell
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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
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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
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
S. Truett Cathy
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
Irwin Winkler
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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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
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To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong
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I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.
Pia Zadora
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No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.
Wallace Stegner
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
Rex Stout
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No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.
Jimmy Iovine
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Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?
Lauren Bush
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
Quincy Jones
