Quincy Jones Quotes

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

Quincy Jones

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Belief
  • Strength

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• Life is too short to blend in.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Too
  • Life Is Too Short

• There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Know
  • Fashion
  • Magic

• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Love
  • Achieve
  • For Him

• So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • Green
  • Trees

• I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Walking
  • Shoes

• TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Place
  • Most
  • Still

• When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • World
  • Night
  • Fire

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Long
  • Opinion

• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Greed
  • Idiot
  • Newspaper

• I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Future
  • Privilege
  • Citizen

• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Business
  • Help
  • Write

• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Place
  • England
  • Encouraging

• I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winning races again, Lujan's statement that the DCCC would fund candidates who oppose abortion rights puts our country in danger and makes it all the more likely that the Republicans will continue to defeat us in election after election.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Winning

• Cognitive processes surely exist, so it can hardly be unscientific to study them.

  

  Ulric Neisser
  • Study
  • Processes

• I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Long
  • High

• Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Leadership

• We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • School
  • Love
  • Blood

• Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Poetry
  • Jazz
  • Slave