George Duke Quotes

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • First

• I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Really
  • Mainstream
  • Novelist

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• My dad is afraid of my laugh.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Dad
  • Laugh
  • Afraid

• I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Mind
  • Dad
  • Proud

• When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

  

  Ira Glass
  • College
  • Body
  • Theory

• Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Always
  • Gym

• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  

  Odette Annable
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Growth

• It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Think
  • For Him
  • Loving

• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Hand
  • Movies
  • See

• Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Light
  • Greek
  • Cheese

• Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

  

  Frances Burney

• All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

  

  James Van Der Beek

• Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Remember
  • Color
  • Mood

• Buzz was, of course, the second man to walk on the moon. Buzz made a rap video, 'Rocket Experience,' with Snoop Dogg. He did the cha-cha and the fox-trot and was eliminated in the second round of season ten of 'Dancing with the Stars'.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Experience
  • Moon
  • Rap

• I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

  

  George Duke
  • Experience
  • Take
  • Prefer