John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.
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The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.
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The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.
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It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.
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I've loved reading all my life.
