Dukes quotes

Dukes

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John Wayne
John Wayne Actor, Director

"The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him."

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Prince Philip Royalty
Dukes

"If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?"

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Ray Charles Musician, Singer
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"It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good."

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband."

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Galileo Galilei Astronomer, Physicist
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"The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?"

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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!" "Um," I said. "We kissed," the Duke said. "That's kinda gay," Keun said. "I AM A GIRL." "Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said."

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Herbert Poet
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"You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually."

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