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Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Jazz Musician
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
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I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.
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