John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought.
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'Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.'
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Men often become nonviolent in societies that (1) have adequate amounts of food, (2) have adequate amounts of water, and (3) perceive themselves as isolated from attack. For example, the Tahitian men, the Minoan men on Crete, and the Central Malaysian Semai were nonviolent during the period in their history when all three of these conditions prevailed.
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To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.
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When all else fails, I am comforted by the fact that when I am ill or old, I will never be on my own. After all, you'd have to be a pretty terrible father if not one of your seven daughters was willing to take care of you at the end.
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Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.
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Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
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Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
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Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
