Quincy Jones Quotes
My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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Clay is not my surface; everyone knows that.
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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
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I just moved to Florida to seek out opportunities.
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My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing.
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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
