Quincy Jones Quotes
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
Bai Ling -
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
Irvine Welsh -
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
Viggo Mortensen -
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
Caitlin Moran -
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
Gates McFadden
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I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.
Kate Levering -
It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
Macaulay Culkin -
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
Pat Riley -
I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
Gary Lineker -
Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.
Yani Tseng -
My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.
J. K. Simmons
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge -
I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.
Flume -
There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can’t be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They’re probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn’t be elected governor of the state of Illinois.
Barack Obama -
Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
Jennifer Lynch -
I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.
Duane Chapman -
I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.
Blake Shelton
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Smiles are the soul's kisses.
Minna Antrim -
Obviously, the real test of these regulations will be their implementation, ... It is absolutely critical that the Air Force leadership ensure that these regulations are well understood and strictly enforced, especially at the Air Force Academy.
Lois Capps -
In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
Baz Luhrmann -
The hope is that we'll continue to create jobs for the vast majority of people. But if the situation arises that this is less and less the case, then we need to rethink, how do we make sure that everybody can make a living?
Moshe Vardi -
Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
Quincy Jones