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.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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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.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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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.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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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.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.
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The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.
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I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.
