Quincy Jones Quotes

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

Quincy Jones

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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Soren Kierkegaard

PeopleMeUnderstandingUnderstand

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Robin Gibb

LookingNowInspirationEveryone

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

Rupert Grint

FunnyLikeReallyJimFilms

John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.

Douglas Brinkley

HeroKingLovedEarlyTableDrama

People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.

Bob Morley

MomentBestPeopleYouSometimes

The decision to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages at the discretion of the congregation poses challenges for seminaries training new pastors who come from denominations fundamentally opposed on biblical grounds to same-sex marriage.

Anthea Butler

MarriageDecisionTrainingChallenges

Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.

Anne Donovan

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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

Alfred Russel Wallace

TreesKnowSaidIgnorantAnything

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Peter Zumthor

ArchitectureWorldPlaceConcrete

All my life, I've wanted to write a book inspired by my relationship with my grandfather. Basically, my grandfather was a guy who everybody in the family regarded as disagreeable at best. But I loved him intensely. He was wonderful to me.

Scott Turow

LifeFamilyRelationshipBestMe

What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small 'l' but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. That's more or less the empty set.

Tyler Cowen

WinningSmallChanceVoteMore

I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person's friend. But we all know what we're insecure about. The question I had as I was writing was, 'How are these things affecting the way I live? How am I compensating because I don't like this about myself? What do I do to cover it up?'

Tyler Joseph

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