Quincy Jones Quotes

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

Quincy Jones

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One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.

Jo Brand

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I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

Michael Douglas

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I'm a Republican, but I like the Queen. Like everyone else, I'm sentimental about the Queen.

Stephen Frears

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If you're not passionate about what you want to do, you won't be good at it.

Sid Haig

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I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.

Tsai Ing-wen

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You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

Sholom Aleichem

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The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side.

Tom Wlaschiha

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My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

Russell Simmons

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The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.

Ruby Dee

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May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

Jonathan Carroll

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I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.

Bonnie Raitt

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