Duke Ellington Quotes
Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Duke Ellington
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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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Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.
Nalini Singh
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
Garry Disher
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But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.
Elizabeth Wein
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What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
David Malouf
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil
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Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Duke Ellington