John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav Havel
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
Ike Barinholtz
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
Candace Kita
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
Lady Gaga
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
Gary Hamel
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
Tecumseh
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While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
J. D. Vance
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan Quayle
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
E. O. Wilson
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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
Lance Loud
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
Walt Disney
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
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A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.
Karen McDougal
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
Malorie Blackman
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
Eddie Marsan
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
Warren Christopher
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I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.
William Shakespeare
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I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.
Christine Lahti
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If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.
Laurel Clark
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Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.
Galen Strawson
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I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.
Samuel Alito
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Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
John Wayne