Top 121 Duke Quotes

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

I learned how to prepare like a pro, how to recover like a pro, how to live like a pro while at Duke.

I just loved my experience at Duke that much where I wanted to stay.

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.

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand’s flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.

I felt that if the public found out that a black man made a fool of David Duke, his attempts at a political career would have fallen by wayside.

I’m very proud of my time at Duke, my career at Duke, but as you get older and become an adult, you lose some head bobs. That’s not part of the routine anymore.

Coach K, he’s just the most legendary coach to coach college basketball. I felt like going to Duke University I can learn a lot from him in my time there.

We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you’re game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.

I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, ‘There’s two kinds of music – there’s good music, and then there’s the other kind.’

After school I went to work at a builders’ merchant in Stoke. After we finished on a Friday, it was down to the Duke of York for a drink with my mates and a game of darts. Unfortunately for them I had a natural talent and nobody could beat me.

I write and direct the Duke University Children’s Hospital Benefit every year.

What David Duke was preaching to me in 1978 about the Klan and what the Klan wanted to do regarding immigration is the same rhetoric, the same position that Donald J. Trump advocates and ran on and is trying to implement.

Is there one blues guy who was the most sophisticated and influential, like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong in jazz? Was it Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, or all of them? I think you have to pick all of them.

I want people to feel what it was like in the ’40s. That’s when popular music in the United States was so beautiful. Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday. That’s when popular music had deeper values, to me. This was music that was selling millions of records.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

I owe my career to ‘Duke.’

I’d known the Duke of Edinburgh over a period of 40 years, so I’d long been accustomed to his sense of humor.

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!

Nothing can prepare an 18-year-old for the fishbowl that is Duke basketball. So that was difficult.

Of course my goal at Duke was to win the national championship, but we were shorthanded, and lost one of our big guys that was very important to the team. By the end of the season we only played about six guys. But we tried our hardest and did our best and overall had a successful season.

When you’re kept by a patron you don’t have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that’s a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

I never liked Duke. I don’t know why. Just never did. Guess they were always a heavy favorite and I liked to go with the underdog.

It’s not easy for a freshman, especially not at Duke.

Quincy Jones’ autobiography ‘Q’ is very good. Because he’s a master at music, he’s one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.

Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, ‘Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust. How will I ever communicate with him?’

To be the top guy throughout my life and my career, to have people coming at me every game, giving me their best shot – that’s part of the reason I went to Duke. I love that stuff.

If I were to share with you the number of attacks that come into the Duke network every day, you would be astounded. And it’s not from people working out of their garage; it’s from nation-states that are trying to penetrate systems.

I really didn’t get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listening to ‘Starman’ and thinking it sounded like it was a song for kids, like a lullaby. The Thin White Duke is my favorite look that he created.

As late as my junior year, I was taking Italian at Duke because I thought I was going to have to go overseas and play. Then I had a great senior year and became a lottery pick.

I love Stanley Clark. I love George Duke and Stanley Clark.

I was a little bit of a tech lord. Not a lord. More of a duke or a nobleman. I was into that stuff as a kid. Nothing too crazy.

The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides – I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it’s on? Why can’t I just say, ‘I want to watch Duke basketball.’ Or, even better, why doesn’t the system know that?

And Duke Nukem, I think he is the most iconic videogame character in the industry. I think Lara Croft is the female and Duke Nukem is the male. Between them, they’re the most iconic figures in videogames.

My introduction to the Queen was disconcerting, to say the least. ‘This is Gyles Brandreth,’ said the Duke of Edinburgh cheerily. ‘Apparently, he’s writing about you.’

I was with him, coincidentally, on the evening in 1979 when they had buried John Wayne. My father cried like a baby when he went to see the Duke.

Of course, in college, you’re traveling, especially when you’re with Duke basketball, but in the NBA, it’s on a whole entire level.

Given the way Duke plays its offense and defense, in high school I was very interested in playing for Coach K. Then when you get there and see how good he is, you buy into it a hundred percent. He has a recipe for how to be successful on the court.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

When I got done at Duke, I almost felt ashamed of it. I almost tried to distance myself from being the Duke guy.

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No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don’t think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.

In many respects, David Duke was the playbook. He established the playbook by which Donald Trump ran and ultimately became – I won’t even use the term – let’s just say he became the occupant of the White House.

The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings… it’s strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie… keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies – it soars in a way that’s really magical.

My job was to give ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ production team lots of options when it came to Duke. So that’s what I always tried to do.

Kyrie is a good guy. Spent a lot of time with him over the years because we were the same class in high school and ACC when he was at Duke. Then I was with him my rookie year in Cleveland.

I really loved all my time at this university and so I hope it’s seen how much I appreciate Duke. Not only playing basketball for Duke, but being a student at Duke, and I really am thankful for my time here.

Duke Nukem’ helped bridge the gap between games designed for adults and what they wanted in their entertainment as adults who also wanted to have fun. ‘Duke Nukem’ bridged that gap and helped bring those things together. It’s one of the reasons it succeeded at the time.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

My teammates at Duke – all of them, black and white – were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest level for the best coach in basketball.

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we’d done it. Another terrible mistake.