Mike Duke Quotes

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

Mike Duke

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I'm always playing a role, whether it's the role of the mayor, the role of a news anchor, or a role of a crazy talk-show host. But there was a specific function. 'On Dancing With The Stars', I had nothing to do but be me, schlepping around the floor. And when I host 'America's Got Talent', that's really me just talking to regular folks.

Jerry Springer

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With 'Atonement,' I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which 'broke the camel's back' emotionally.

Joe Wright

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My only intention is to be happy and be in a place where I feel wanted.

Alvaro Morata

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Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

Stan Wawrinka

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As our leaders in Washington confront tough decisions about our budget priorities, I urge them to continue federal funding for public broadcasting.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

Sofia Coppola

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What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

Mike Newell

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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

Don King

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In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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I'm kind of like a tween. I've read all 'Hunger Games' books in three days.

Brooklyn Decker

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Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.

Bruce Johnston

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The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.

William P. Leahy

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