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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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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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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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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My mistakes made were learning how to work with different groups of people. I mean, I went to school at Berkeley, which is a pretty diverse group, but working in a professional setting, I hadn't really done that before and learning about office politics, learning about interactions between different people and I made a lot of mistakes there during my time as a young person. I was 19 or 20 at the time. So, I would say those were my biggest career mistakes, but fortunately they were made in the context of an engineering co-op program and not in a professional field.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
