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Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.

Quote by Quincy Jones about home, house, school, music

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

Quote by Quincy Jones about dignity, proudness, magic, idea, rightness, man

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, man, woman

As soon as you break up the man (or woman) who couldn't commit TO YOU will get married.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, woman, contentment, man

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.

Quote by Roy Orbison about opinion, contentment

Somebody said to me this morning, To what do you attribute your longevity I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle...

Quote by Ozzy Osbourne about opinion, longevity, drugs, body, life, contentment

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about parents, time

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

Quote by Christopher Parker about joy, people

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

Quote by Christopher Parker about parents, interest, school, time

I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was one of those involved in recording a Beatles album.

Quote by Alan Parsons

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

Quote by Andy Partridge about pain

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

Quote by Andy Partridge about opinion, hate, absolute, commerce, joy, time, contentment

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

Quote by Minnie Pearl

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

Quote by Minnie Pearl

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen

In fact you may be surprised by this, I was even moved down a class once because I couldn't do mental arithmetic.

Quote by Roger Penrose about contentment

Saddam Hussein's bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn't get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent in to die...

Quote by John Perkins about opinion, man, death, good, good luck

The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn't possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can't do...

Quote by John Perkins about nation, country, people

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

Quote by Priscilla Presley about delusion, husband, wife, home, children, being, contentment

For a world of opposites to exist, it’s necessary to have at least two elements that generate the opposition between them. Could we talk about a world without opposites? We certainly can’t, just as well as we couldn’t talk about a world without...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about world