For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence… — Grant Hill Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, it blew my mind and kind of broke my heart when I found out that the… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such. — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
Do you think 'Duke' is a good name?' she asked. His face blanked for a second before it cleared. He glanced at… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
I'll just go over to the Duke's," I said. "Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there… — John Green Copy Share Image
In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on… — Angie Dickinson Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
First of all, what made him [Duke in "Zero Year"] captivating is this sense of somebody who wants to save the city… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality… — Joseph Alsop Copy Share Image
Who’s that? That’s the King. Who’s he? The Duke. Who’s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging --… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during… — Grant Hill Copy Share Image
Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself. — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
It has never been more critical that a leader step forward to accelerate our understanding of cancer - and champion the effort… — Victor J. Dzau Copy Share Image
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith,… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I was able to get through the field and get this Lowe's ProServices Chevy up front. Those last few restarts I was… — Jimmie Johnson Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you,… — Kenny Burrell Copy Share Image
And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin.… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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