Dukes Quotes - Page 4

• Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

  Nat Hentoff

  Song, Pro Life, Life Is

  Source: www.humanlifereview.com

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• Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, House, Naked

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.42

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• Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Pride, Power, Men

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• Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.

  Stendhal

  Heart, Eye, Mad

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• When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.

  Horace Walpole

  Brother, Kings, Three

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• I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.

  Charles Lloyd

  Mother, Men, Blessing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I did have a tiny moment in a TV movie called My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke.

  Brent Spiner

  Sweet, Tiny, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.

  Grant Hill

  Games, Teammate, Proud

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• It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.

  Elizabeth David

  Believe, Hero, Mean

  Elizabeth David (2011). “A Taste of the Sun”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't.

  Melinda Gates

  Men, Guy, Elbows

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Character, Mean

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.377

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• I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  Aaron Staton

  Winning, Feels

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• There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Dirty, Nba, Two

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• If my mother were running for president and talked about a Muslim ban, I'd call her a bigot. If my mother claimed she didn't know who David Duke was when I knew she did, I'd say that's disqualifying. If my mother called an Indiana judge a Mexican, I would say that's a bigoted remark.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Mother, Running, Judging

  Source: wwd.com

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• I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

  Cannonball Adderley

  Jazz, Philosopher, My Favorite

  Interview by the "Chicago SEED", November, 1968.

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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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• 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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• Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Stars, Rain

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You will agree that the Duke Lacrosse team raped and damaged or whatever, even though it didn't happen. You will be made to agree. You will understand that there is going to be amnesty and you will love it and you will stop speaking out against it. And until you do, you are in our crosshairs. It's who they are. That is the modern-day Democrat Party, and certainly that is the attitude of their major donors.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Attitude, Team, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

  Julia Quinn

  Writing, Heart, Novel

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• A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England

  Tony Greig

  Skills, Technique, Balls

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• At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.

  Gary D.

  Son, Sea, Quality

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• Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.

  Quincy Jones

  Holiday, Moon, Rapper

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• Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Girl, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.

  Joan of Arc

  Thinking, Hands, Years

  Saint Joan (of Arc) (1961). “Joan of Arc: Self Portrait”

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