Quincy Jones Quotes
I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
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I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
