Quincy Jones Quotes
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
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'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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I came from the South with a mother who was hard working, so I love going to work every day.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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I have one coach and one coach only. His name is Alexander Vetrov. They brought him in for me when I joined the Bolshoi. He was a dancer with the Bolshoi, and we work very intensely together.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
