John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
John Wayne
Quotes to Explore
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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
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I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
Nate Lowman
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
Gary McCord
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
Nate Ruess
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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.
J. C. Watts
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
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
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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.
Fran Kranz
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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.
Walt Kelly
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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.'
L. Frank Baum
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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.
Warren Farrell
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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
Jane Austen
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I respect the second amendment and the right of individuals to own firearms. But I think that we all agree that there are some people who should not be able just to walk in and buy weapons of war.
Hillary Clinton
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The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development
Andrew Cuomo
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What strange creatures brothers are!
Jane Austen
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I think I'm one of five people in the Senate who's never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
John Wayne
