John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.
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When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.
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I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.
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I'm OK with people being naked. There shouldn't be a huge deal made about it.
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Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
