Quincy Jones Quotes
I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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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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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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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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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.
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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 travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
