Dukes Quotes - Page 5

• A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

  Frank Ocean

  Past, Royalty, Complexes

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

  Robert Fabyan

  Wine, Towers, Barrels

  'The New Chronicles of England and France' pt. 2 (1477); early editions have the spelling malvesye

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• It has never been more critical that a leader step forward to accelerate our understanding of cancer - and champion the effort to finally defeat it. That leader will be the Duke Cancer Institute.

  Victor J. Dzau

  Cancer, Effort, Leader

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• The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.

  Dan Quayle

  Cutting, Government, People

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• My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

  Kenny Burrell

  Music, Being Yourself, Inspiration

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• The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.

  Edwin Edwards

  Wizards, Sheets

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• I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.

  Ellen Kushner

  Mean, Thinking, Buckets

  "The Privilege of the Sword". Book by Ellen Kushner, 2006.

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• I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

  Jalen Rose

  Uncles, Player, Black

  FaceBook post by Jalen Rose from Mar 09, 2011

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• Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Character, Winning, Issues

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• To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

  Howard Fineman

  Cities, Duke University, Graduates

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.

  Laozi

  Horse, Taoism, Three

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• The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Surfing, Too Much, Reason

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• The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Adversity, Swings, Faces

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• My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Inspirational, Teacher

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• I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in Harlem for a bit, and I just fell in love with the idea of that era of New York, that jazz era, especially jazz in Harlem.

  Charlie Day

  New York, Ideas, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was able to get through the field and get this Lowe's ProServices Chevy up front. Those last few restarts I was able to hang on and duke it out with those guys and get a nice, top-three finish.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Nice, Guy, Three

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• The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.

  Gail Carriger

  World, Patterns, Causes

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• I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Dedication, Men

  "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "The Razumovsky Duet" (p. 263), 1995.

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• It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil.

  Thomas Malory

  Kings, War, Book

  Sir Thomas Malory (1871). “Morte D'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table”, p.25

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• That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.

  Christina Aguilera

  Attitude, Feelings, Ambitious

  "Christina: Intimate Talk About a Past That Still Hurts". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. November 30, 2006.

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• The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him.

  John Wayne

  Personality, Guy, Students

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• Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible.

  Jay Chandrasekhar

  Thinking, Daisies, Honestly

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• In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen, Campbell argued that while evolution (or Development) might be observable in the fossil record, it was merely evidence of God's purpose. God, for example, would cause horses and oxen to evolve in time to meet human needs. The brightly colored plumage of birds, Campbell went on, were simply God's decorations of nature for humanity's enjoyment.

  Jonathan Clements

  Horse, Book, Oxen

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• Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.

  Galileo Galilei

  Laughter, Philosophy, Science

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• ...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

  Jo Nesbo

  Piano, Sound, Sitting

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