John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson -
You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
Daisy Fuentes -
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
Otto Schily -
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Wendell Wilkie -
I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
Zack Greinke -
The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
Adam Kluger
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid -
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia -
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan -
If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
Caitlin Rose -
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
Zac Goldsmith -
I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
Cara Delevingne -
Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
R. J. Cutler -
The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
Wale -
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
Karl Urban -
I believe in love but just have not found anyone.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Felix Frankfurter -
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
George McGovern -
You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.
Bernhard Langer -
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne