Winston Duke Quotes
I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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I will fight the fight I need to fight to win.
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There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker.
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I've never met a person who doesn't like music, and we may vary in what styles we like, but everybody likes some form of music.
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I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.
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I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.
