Quincy Jones Quotes

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

Quincy Jones

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Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

Amelie Nothomb

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How do you focus on jobs and creating opportunities for the next generation if it's just essentially a war on public employees and others?

Steve Bullock

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Oh yes, things get me mad. But the thing is, I get mad, and then I turn around and I forget.

Sofia Vergara

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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Mary Webb

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Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying out loud!

Matt Bevin

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I have been juggling so many roles. I am a mother, too. I have three sons to take care of. I don't even know how I manage to pull it off sometimes.

Mary Kom

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Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

Mitt Romney

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In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that?

Lisa Randall

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Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's the only way to get inside the characters and make the narrative work. It's a storytelling tradition, and I think to come off as genuine then you have to really approach it that way.

Jason Isbell

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All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.

Josh Homme

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I'm very close with my fans. I'm very involved with my fans, so I've seen the influence that I can have on a child or on the mind of somebody.

Drake Bell

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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Christopher Lasch

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