Duke Ellington Quotes

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Know
  • Week
  • France

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• My greatest competition is, well, me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Competition
  • Greatest

• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Study
  • Try
  • Computers

• It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Impact
  • Hunting
  • Resolution

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• Reality is a sliding door.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Reality
  • Door
  • Sliding

• 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
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Late

• Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Work

• 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
  • Dance
  • Gossip
  • Hamlet

• This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.

  

  Ayman Odeh
  • Black
  • Law
  • Evil

• 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
  • World
  • Men
  • Free

• 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
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mood

• Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Moment

• In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Mom
  • Poor
  • Town

• The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Emotional
  • Design
  • Missing

• You guys are seriously missing out unless you all start listening to girls.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Listening

• I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Interesting

• Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

  

  Duke Ellington
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