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.
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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.
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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.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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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.
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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.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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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.
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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
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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.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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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.
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I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
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We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
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I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that?
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I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.'
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What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
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Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
