Duke Ellington Quotes
Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Duke Ellington
Quotes to Explore
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When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'
Sam Shepard
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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
Garrison Keillor
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Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.
Anna Akhmatova
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This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
Ayman Odeh
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We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.
Cesar Chavez
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I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.
Charli XCX
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You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway.
James Mattis
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The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
Helen Keller
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Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.
George Noory
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
Anthony Bourdain
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We say to the Creator of all this magnitude and majesty, ‘Well, I’m not sure You are worth it…. You see, I really like my car, or my little sin habit, or my money, and I’m really not sure I want to give them up, even if it means I get You.’
Francis Chan
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Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Duke Ellington