Winston Duke Quotes
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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I'm way too famous and rich to be on a dating app, but if I get very desperate by the time I'm 60, I'll go on Tinder. Or I'll go on 'Millionaire Matchmaker'; I'll call Patti Stanger.
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Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.
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The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down."
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Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.
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Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.
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I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.
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Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.
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The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.
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Poetry's object is truth.
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The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
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He throws hard, he's got a good slider. We haven't seen him before, which is not good for us, historically.
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While we had other options, we didn't want to lose what's been a relationship since 1990, and we think they're doing an awfully good job.
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With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
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Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.
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I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
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Raised during Reagan, suffered through Clinton
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My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.
