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 am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
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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.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
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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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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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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I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.
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That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
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My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, and often we couldn't get the resources that would excite our students about learning.
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Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
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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.
