Quincy Jones Quotes

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

Quincy Jones

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It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.

John Gruber

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I've been fighting for Davids versus the Goliaths for 18 years, my entire career.

Michael Avenatti

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This is how memories are made... by going with the flow.

Amanda Bynes

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Each industry in a region should develop a playbook that expands and details the strategy and tactics of how to build a scalable startup.

Steve Blank

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I don't just sing R&B: I'm able to sing pop and play with other sounds, but it's all real soulful.

Rotimi

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Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.

Mitch Kapor

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Millions of Indonesians who live with secrets in their family who have a sense of that kind of secret that their parents never told them, want to be told about what happened so they can know where they come from.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating.

Jonathan Anderson

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I've been a performer for a long time, but I really don't have any dancing experience. I did some of the musicals in high school, and I was in the glee club for a little while just to try and gain some skills... I was not good at it.

Brant Daugherty

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It is our mistakes that make us interesting, right?

Brian Azzarello

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You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

Brian Blessed

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We have a nanny in the house, but there are always times when one of my kids does something bad or wrong, and they'll listen to me more than they do the nanny. So I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for them at a young age, so they will know, 'I better listen to Mommy.'

Britney Spears

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