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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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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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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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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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.
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One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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I believe inspiration is contagious.
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This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.
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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.
