Quincy Jones Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift -
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant -
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
Ban Ki-moon -
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
D. H. Lawrence -
Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
Karen Kain
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
Carl Jung -
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
A. N. Wilson -
Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
Zaha Hadid -
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
Gavin Newsom -
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
Victor Francis Hess
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I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.
J. C. Watts -
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy -
The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
Dan Jenkins -
I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model.
Kate Upton -
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde
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I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.
Keith Miller -
The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States.
Joseph Bruchac -
Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.
Aristotle -
If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
Viggo Mortensen -
It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.
Zach Galifianakis -
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones