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 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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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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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
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I write about true-life type things.
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Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.
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The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.
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It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.
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The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
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I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
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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.
