Quincy Jones Quotes
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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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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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.
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I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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Time is money, and the more breaks given, the less money that is made.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
