Quincy Jones Quotes
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I have selective hearing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia -
I like to be supportive and a role model.
Rachel Platten -
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
Harold Washington -
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie -
I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
Sam J. Jones -
As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
Parker Stevenson -
People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
Rakul Preet Singh -
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
Dan Quayle -
I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
LaToya London
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. Wells -
I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
Barry Bonds -
Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
Fidel Castro -
My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
Tamra Davis -
One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
Rachel Nichols -
If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.
Brian Azzarello
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Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
Nicolaus Copernicus -
We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'
Daddy Yankee -
I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.
Flannery O'Connor -
I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
Quincy Jones