Duke Ellington Quotes
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Duke Ellington
Quotes to Explore
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
Sam Donaldson
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To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
Carl Honore
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
Tao Okamoto
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I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
Waris Ahluwalia
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
iO Tillett Wright
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor Hugo
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara De Angelis
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
Saint Ignatius
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I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.
Canelo Alvarez
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It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
Damian Lewis
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I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.
Taraji P. Henson
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I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and also my career, because it's a lot. I don't want someone who's like... 'Oh, you don't have time for me'. Like, I want somebody who's sure of himself and gonna be like, 'Okay, you go do your thing, and when you come back, we're good.'
Becky G
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There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
Beatrice Wood
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'Isn’t that a little hard on him? You’re not only making him feel bad about something he didn’t do, you’re making him feel bad about something that didn’t even shracking happen.''I believe churches used to call it original sin,' Rutherford agreed, looking crafty. 'But what does it matter, if it serves to make him a better man?'
Kage Baker
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims, or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there. It gives one the image of a giant's den in a romance, bestrewed with scattered heads and mangled limbs.
Alexander Pope
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'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors.
Lindsay Mendez
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Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.
Douglas Rushkoff
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My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
Louis Susman
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I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.
Ira Glass
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In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.
Jose Andres
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Patrick Henry
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I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
Raza Jaffrey
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All problems are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no fact. To think is not to know how to be.
Fernando Pessoa
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It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Duke Ellington
