Duos Quotes

• Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

  Elliott Carter

  Order, Silence, Movement

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• I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

  Derek Bailey

  Song

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• A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation.

  Larry Constantine

  Teamwork, People, Together

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• Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

  Daryl Hall

  Accused

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Opportunity, Perfect

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• If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

  Scott Thompson

  Comedy, Ifs

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• My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies.

  David Massengill

  Heart, Soul, Harmony

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• Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

  Francis Bacon

  Strong, Science, Doctors

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• It looks to me like the Republican Party`s in no mood to give them [voters] a reasonable choice with this clown show going on right now from the likes of, well, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump. What a duo.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Giving, Choices

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You know, when you're part of a comedic duo, you can take breaks. It's kind of like having a partner that is good with a kid.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Kids, Kind, Break

  "Val Kilmer & Robert Downey Jr. Talk Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang". Interview With B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. October 20, 2005.

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• I like Pique a lot. He has class. He knows how to defend and also how to score. He is perfect in a duo with Carles Puyol.

  Paolo Maldini

  Class, Perfect, Pique

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• [Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes. Batman Begins is a strong re-start to a franchise that deserves better than it has often been accorded.

  James Berardinelli

  Strong, Men, Waiting

  "Batman Begins (2005)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Funny, Basketball, Nba

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• That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

  John Green

  Team, Grace, Roaring

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.115, Penguin

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• I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

  Michel Legrand

  Strange, Melody

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• Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

  Plautus

  Business, Two, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 85-87, Poenulus, I. 2. 1, 1922.

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• We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
  [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

  Ovid

  Future, Two, Form

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• Both of us knew the band had run its course. We were both unhappy doing it, but I think the way Andrew [Ridgeley] was being treated as the less important half of the duo had finally taken its toll on him.

  George Michael

  Running, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

  Skylar Grey

  Mom, Mother, Talking

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• Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird beam from the Moth Signal summoned the Gangland Guardian to the aid of desperate criminals ?And who can forget the eerie Moth Cave where new and startling implements of crime were produced by this evil genius !

  Bob Kane

  Eerie, Evil, Criminals

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• I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony.

  John C. Reilly

  Brother, Growing Up, Together

  "Life of Reilly" by Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. December 04, 2004.

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• I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.

  Patti Smith

  Guitar, Typewriters, Tools

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• My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

  Sheridan Smith

  Country, Brother, Parent

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• I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.

  Ralph McTell

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

  Michel Legrand

  Writing, Two, Directors

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