How I conned the Grand Wizard, David Duke, and his coterie of followers... It has defined me in ways I never could have imagined.
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.
My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs.
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.
Indeed, the Duke of Edinburgh's disdain for his eldest son was all the more shocking because he made little or no attempt to hide it.
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.
My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.
If the Republican party becomes the party of David Duke, Donald Trump, I'm out.
To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
The way we grow is, we make investments. We've been building a natural-gas platform within Duke that started with the pipelines.
The second track I made was the record 'I Got U,' which ended up becoming the Duke Dumont single with me featuring. It changed my life.
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.
Duke as a program speaks for itself. Coach K is the greatest coach of all time.
The enormity of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's global influence is daunting, especially for Kate, whose look is admired, copied, and analysed everywhere.
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.
In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to basketball were like 25 to one, and my one wasn't from Duke.
There is no doubt in my mind at all. The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs, and more than one.
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.
A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
Nuclear is an important part of the heritage of Duke. We operate the largest regulated nuclear fleet in the U.S. We love the diversity of the generation.
That was part of David Duke's agenda, is to turn the Klan from a racist organization in the eyes of the public into something that is respectable and acceptable.
I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.
I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
I will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer service and operational and financial excellence.
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of
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If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
When I was at Duke, I finally had an avocado - accidentally - on a turkey sandwich. I was hooked. Next thing I know, I couldn't get enough guacamole.
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.
I've won league championships, and I helped pull off a massive NCAA tournament upset - our 15-versus-2 win over Duke in 2012.
Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
I first started coming to Ibiza as a DJ; my debut set was at Sankeys with Duke Dumont. I wasn't really in the clubs, though, to be honest - I was mainly in the studio working.
Who’s that? That’s the King. Who’s he? The Duke. Who’s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm…how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.
I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.
2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company.
I think everyone in the United States has such admiration for the British royal family, and with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, there's a whole new interest in the younger generation.
I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
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.
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
As I finished up my time at Duke, I certainly wasn't a 'foodie' but I was learning to enjoy the finer things in the culinary world.
I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.
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.'
We work so hard on our craft, and once we get out of Duke Ellington, there are not going to be people looking for technique. I worry about that a lot.
I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
I didn't want to go to any school but Duke: the best of the best.
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.
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.
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.
You probably know me best as a 4 year player, national champion, and graduate of Duke University, but I'm also a gamer, student, Christian, and a long time redditor.
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
I'd known the Duke of Edinburgh over a period of 40 years, so I'd long been accustomed to his sense of humor.
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?'
For 2015, Duke Energy's employees safety record received the top rank among large utilities as recognize by EEI.
Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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