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George Duke Quotes

At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 12, 1946

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Music Heart Time Want Same Expand

Personally, in my home, the district in central New York, the Air National Guard base, not 5 years ago, the commandant came through and said, This is one of the sorriest looking bases I have ever seen.

Home New York Looking New Said Air

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

My Own Cancer Own Been Mortality

The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Truth Man Truth Is Wrong Will Right

I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

Michael Eric Dyson

Life Day King Think Every Day Poor

Before I fought Adonis Stevenson in 2013, I had 4lbs to shift in a morning before weighing in. I had zero energy left to train, so the nutritional adviser said the only way was to drag it from my body in a hot bath full of salts.

Morning Energy Body Train Bath Said

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

Puzzle Irony Structure Something

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.

Quality Yourself Start Think You

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.

Learning Time Writing Doing Detroit

There are certain artists that get into the little circle in hip-hop, and everybody is talking about them, and they are buzzing. But they can't go out and sell out tours, perform in front of 3,000 people a night, and things like that. We did things backwards; with Visionary, we got all the fans first.

People Night Talking Circle Hip-Hop

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

Fun Song Write Perform

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Hate Baseball Win You Lose Play

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Deborah Moggach

Memories Thoughts Action Story Think

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