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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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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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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Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.
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You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
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When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.
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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.
