Quincy Jones Quotes

I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

Quincy Jones

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• When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Up
  • You
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• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
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  • Play
  • Pain

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • Europe
  • Improve

• When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Up
  • Family
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• I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Know
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• 'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
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  • Think

• 'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Good
  • Lies

• There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, 'It's a shame that he has to die.' And Jesus is saying, 'Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!!'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Die
  • Jesus

• Prince Charming, prince of the mockers - compared with him the foulest of sinners is grace incarnate...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Prince

• The thing about The Dubliners is - line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 - we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners.

  

  Bono U2
  • Up
  • World
  • Rock

• My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Goals

• I co-founded 'bOING bOING' magazine and the 'Boing Boing Blog' and was an editor at 'Wired' from 1993-1998.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder

• I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

  

  Demetri Martin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Today

• It really feels like VR has the possibility to be something really huge.

  

  John Carmack

• Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

  

  John Hurt
  • Time
  • Wish

• All companies incur expenses, some of which are fixed and bear no relation to sales volumes. In this way, profits can grow at a faster rate than sales.

  

  Li Lu
  • Sales

• When I was playing in the Ajax youth teams - when I was, say, 14, 15 - you started to get all those international youth tournaments. All those English teams came. Well, the English were much further than we were.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • English

• Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

  

  James Thurber
  • Important
  • May
  • Hair

• Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Strong
  • Rising
  • Personage

• When I first heard 'A Christmas Story, the musical,' I thought, Oh, that could be really good. It just felt like it fit. Some films lend themselves well to other formats, some don't, but there are so many fantasy sequences in the film, and Ralphie's such a dreamer as a character, I thought they could really lend themselves to being set pieces.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Good
  • Character
  • Christmas

• Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean.

  

  Epeli Hau'ofa
  • Humanity
  • Ocean
  • Rising

• We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Percent
  • One
  • Millionth

• I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Dreamer
  • Rising
  • Pisces