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.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
Nate Lowman -
I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
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.
J. C. Watts -
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
Jack Kemp
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
Vanna White -
I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
Rachel Johnson -
If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein -
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.
Eddie Marsan -
I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
Damon Runyon -
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.
Orhan Pamuk
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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.
Kate Voegele -
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.
Fran Kranz -
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.
Walt Kelly -
'Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.'
L. Frank Baum -
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.
Warren Farrell -
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.
Isaac Asimov
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Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.
Kevin Brownlow -
I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.
W. Kamau Bell -
Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
Ren Ng -
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
John Wayne