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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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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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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
