John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
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The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
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Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
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I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
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When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.
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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
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I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.
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Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.
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If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
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It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever.
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I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don't have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia?
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Always maintain your composure.
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Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
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Get off your butt and join the Marines!
