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My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was.
If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear.
Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.
When I got done at Duke, I almost felt ashamed of it. I almost tried to distance myself from being the Duke guy.
For 2015, Duke Energy's employees safety record received the top rank among large utilities as recognize by EEI.
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
My decision to go to Duke wasn't a surprise to people who really knew me because I was always a Duke fan growing up.
I love being a Duke student, and continuing to be part of the university culture is something I don't take for granted.
The atmosphere at Duke is just unbelievable. When people say that you can feel the vibrations in the gym it's not a lie.
There is no doubt in my mind at all. The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs, and more than one.
I've won league championships, and I helped pull off a massive NCAA tournament upset - our 15-versus-2 win over Duke in 2012.
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.
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.
No gamer, whether you've played 'Duke 3D' or you haven't, can play 'Duke Forever' without having experiences that surprise them.
The way we grow is, we make investments. We've been building a natural-gas platform within Duke that started with the pipelines.
Duke recruits the best basketball players. They don't recruit dunkers or highlight makers. They recruit good basketball players.
How I conned the Grand Wizard, David Duke, and his coterie of followers... It has defined me in ways I never could have imagined.
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.
I would be a basketball player, play at Duke, go to the Golden State Warriors, play with Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Draymond Green.
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.
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.
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 fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
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.
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 know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.
I get that every game. High school. At Duke. When I do the introductions, I get a little butterflies. Once I step on the floor, I'm fine.
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.
As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.
Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He's a mixture of all those guys and Duke Ellington.
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.'
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.
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?'
I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.
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.
I am honored to be named chairman of Duke Energy's board and privileged to lead our company forward for our customers, employees, and shareholders.
My freshman year, the hate was all directed toward Danny Ferry. And every year, there's some new poor sucker at Duke who draws the ire of everybody.
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.
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 will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer service and operational and financial excellence.
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 became a better talker on the floor, being at Duke, being in leadership with Coach K, and I think I got better defensively as the season progressed.
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.
If I was going to start over, then I wanted to go somewhere I could get better and win and see if I was a really good player. That's why I came to Duke.
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.
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.
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.