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 only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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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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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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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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Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.
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People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.
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The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.
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I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
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My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.
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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.
