Quincy Jones Quotes

Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

Quincy Jones

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YouGoKnowAfricaLineOut

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

John Edwards

MyselfMeFreeFeelYouWant

I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.

Maureen Johnson

PeopleBookSayingMotivationYou

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

Matt Mullenweg

WorkBusinessMorningReadingEnjoy

I don't look at it as, 'Oh, I'm gonna keep making beats, and I'm gonna do that until I die.' But that's how some people look at it - gonna just keep making beats, get placement after placement.

Metro Boomin

PeopleDieLookSome PeopleGetHow

We were always just a hardcore band that came out and said what we believed in, but we also talked about the streets and the stuff that we were into and the struggles and everything we were going through. Once people found out we were Christian, it was always, 'Is that Christian music?'

Sonny Sandoval

MusicPeopleChristianSaidBand

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Mike Ditka

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The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

Marty Feldman

PenSwordWriteEasierThan

There are so many things in my life that would be completely not on within the conservative church. And yet I think of myself as a reasonably decent human being. With all sorts of flaws, you know, but still reasonably decent. If I did believe in Heaven and Hell, I would really, honestly, believe I was going to go to Heaven.

Miriam Toews

LifeMyselfBelieveThinkChurch

It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.

Mohamed El-Erian

CountryWillFollowHardClubSuit

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

Dick Cheney

WarLawLaw EnforcementThinkKey

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.

Christina Milian

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Work's a way of life. It's the way you live; it's what you do, and it's how it is. It's not work. It's a lifestyle. It's life. It's what one does. You can't not work.

Anouska Hempel

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