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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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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When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'
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From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.
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The world could change in a second,so I find the sunshine beckons me,to open up the gate and dream.
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In the mid-90s The older gods were falling off. EPMD were breaking. Chuck and Flav had taken us as far as they could, and already the new voices were being hijacked by the death cults. Brothers who last week were shouting out Malcolm were flipped into studio gangsters, killing every nigger in sight.
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
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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.
