Quincy Jones Quotes
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security.
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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I grew up in Philadelphia.
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I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
