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Down with Dukes of Hazzard!
You managed not to get eaten then?
You look like you're ready for bed!
The bastards murdered half my family.
Do you still throw spears at each other?
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.
Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?
Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.
You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.
Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.
[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.
I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.
The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.
I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.
Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.
You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.
The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!
Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.
Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible.
To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.
I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.
They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.
The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.
I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.
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?
Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me." Duke- Lament
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.
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!
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.
It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.