Quincy Jones Quotes

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Quincy Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

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MusicFoodSoulLanguageCountry

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

Robert J. Sawyer

StoryShortDistanceTwoRoute

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

Michael J. Fox

LifeGoodGodFightAmazingBelieve

When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.

Ronan Farrow

AgePeopleYouEarlyRealizeAlways

I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.

Marv Levy

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I can sleep anywhere from eight hours to 12 hours - but then I can also go on no sleep.

Molly Sims

SleepI CanGoAnywhereHoursEight

One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight.

Molly Ivins

LifeGoodFightWinTexasLearn

I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children. I love talking with them.

Jason Reynolds

LoveChildrenTimePeopleTalking

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

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It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

Douglas Coupland

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My fire is my gift and my curse. I harness it 95% of the time, but the 5% I don't, it works against me.

Draymond Green

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Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives.

Chris Bangle

EverydayOurLivesEveryday Lives

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

MistakeNeverSoundDiscretionMuch

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