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Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke. -- Hunter S. Thompson
As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke. -- B. B. King
I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska. -- Ken Wilber
The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA. -- Grant Hill
We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation. -- Joshua Micah Marshall
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
My teammates at Duke - all of them, black and white - were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest level for the best coach in basketball. -- Grant Hill
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. -- Boris Vian
No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance. -- Richard Masur
I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne. -- John Wayne
In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day! -- Angie Dickinson
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions. -- Stevie Wonder
Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game. -- Jason Williams
They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors. -- Jack Cade
When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen. -- Beth Ditto
I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning. -- Patty Duke
My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature. -- Toru Takemitsu
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. -- William Cowper
Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero. -- Joel McCrea
Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school. -- Clark Terry
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. -- Lawrence Welk
The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity. -- Wynton Marsalis
[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll. -- Miles Davis
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause. -- Ruth Brown
I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year. -- David Friedman
I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well. -- Bryan Ferry
Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time. -- Milt Jackson
I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero. -- Joel McCrea
I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever. -- Ken Jeong
I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms. -- Jalen Rose
The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much. -- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England -- Tony Greig
Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. -- Wynton Marsalis
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel. -- Coco Chanel
I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku. -- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake. -- Jennie Bond
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. -- Steve Lacy
Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is. -- Nat Hentoff
Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords? -- Thomas Carlyle
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. -- David Amram
I did have a tiny moment in a TV movie called My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke. -- Brent Spiner
We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat. -- Mike Krzyzewski
The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets. -- Edwin Edwards
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good. -- Norman Granz
People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth. -- Sonny Vaccaro
[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible. -- Nat Hentoff
Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself. -- Scott Snyder
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such. -- Cannonball Adderley
I don't want to look like Daisy Duke every day. I don't want to wear a bathing suit every day. -- Jessica Simpson
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence. -- P. G. Wodehouse
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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
Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura, the Duke said. I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura. -- Frank Herbert
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington. -- Miles Davis
Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens -- W.S. Gilbert
I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'. -- Celia Rivenbark
The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself. -- Joan of Arc
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
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good. -- Ray Charles
On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul. -- Frank Herbert
I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court. -- Grant Hill
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that weren't sweet. -- Miles Davis
I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another. -- Richard M. Nixon
How did I know? Paul, I've known since you were eight and I caught you masturbating in front of the TV to Bo and Luke Duke. -- Heidi Cullinan Marie Sexton
Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me." Duke- Lament -- Maggie Stiefvater
My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs. -- Brigid Berlin
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music! -- Dave Brubeck
Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it. -- Norman Granz
You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually. -- Herbert
I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons. -- Scott Snyder
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
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. -- Steve Lacy
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
I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that. -- Gray Davis
It's Keun. He wants to be put on speaker. He's being weird.""Fancy that," said the Duke. "Next you'll tell me that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas. -- John Green
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.That word is love."(Sophocles)by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford,from the last page of "Sophie's Salvation -- Janet Aylmer
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
The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him. -- Bob Dylan
Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company. -- John Hunt Morgan
It was a terrible psychic blow... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q? -- Joe Flaherty
My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever. -- Ashley Bell
Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents. -- Norman Granz
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I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. -- Mose Allison
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
And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory." -- Robert Southey
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 that make me? Umm"¦how about the Peasant? And the name stuck. -- Jordan Sonnenblick
Do you think 'Duke' is a good name?' she asked. His face blanked for a second before it cleared. He glanced at the dog in consideration. 'I don't think so. He would outrank me. -- Elizabeth Hoyt
They've got him!" squealed the DukeEleven men to one!""You may have heard of Galahad," said Hark, "whose strength was as the strength of ten.""That leaves one man to get him," cried the Duke." -- James Thurber
We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy. -- C. S. Lewis
No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum. -- Bill Engvall
I enjoy listening to Olla Bell. There is also this young guitar player, John Duke Lippincott, he sometimes goes by Johnny Duke. He is the most brilliant guitar player from right here in Wilmington, DE. -- David Bromberg
I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband. -- Augusten Burroughs
I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time. -- George Shearing
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
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. -- Abbey Lincoln
For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms. -- Jalen Rose
JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!" "Um," I said. "We kissed," the Duke said. "That's kinda gay," Keun said. "I AM A GIRL." "Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said. -- John Green
You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. -- Cab Calloway
In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite. -- Eric Liu
I'm from New York, and yet I've done only one film executive-produced by Spike Lee and have never done a film that Spike Lee directed. I've never done a film that Keenan Wayans has directed, or Bill Duke. -- Ving Rhames
I was once naÃ¯ve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it. -- A. N. Wilson
The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap. -- P. G. Wodehouse
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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
Platitude or not, the crowd erupted into applause, and by acclamation, Kuni Garu became the Duke of Zudi. A few pointed out that titles of nobility really couldn't be handed out in such a democratic fashion, but these killjoys were ignored. -- Ken Liu
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
The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish Duke' tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn. -- Virginia Henley
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer. -- John Van Hamersveld
A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had. -- Terry Pratchett
I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers]. -- Lena Horne
...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
[Duke] is the same way that Harper Row is a character who doesn't want to know who you are beneath the mask, and that makes her interesting. She'll show up and help Batman, but she never wants to know if he's Bruce Wayne. -- Scott Snyder
I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss. -- Maynard Ferguson
The funny thing is while the grown-ups in the family may indulge, we really try to offer our son Duke clean food, as all his meals are made with organic ingredients as the rest of us eat cookies straight out of the freezer. -- Bill Rancic
The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true: the King (he said) could see things if he would, and the Duke would see things if he could. -- Gilbert Burnet
And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a Lady who saw the Sight was presently afterwards deliver'd of a Child without a Head. So lives the Power of Imagination even in this Rationall Age. -- Peter Ackroyd
There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique. -- John Calipari

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