Quincy Jones Quotes
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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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.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.
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I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
