George Duke Quotes
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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I'd always wanted to write crime fiction. I loved Nancy Drew.
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.
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Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.
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Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.
