Quincy Jones Quotes
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.
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A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
