Quincy Jones Quotes
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
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My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
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My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.
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I've learned to keep your mouth shut even when something bad is going on. You never know how someone is going to take something you say. You have to bite the bullet.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
