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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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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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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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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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 take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.
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My music is like my freedom space.
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We set forth on a journey to bring our vision to our country, to keep the American dream alive for all who are willing to work for it, to make our American community stronger, to keep America the world's strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.
