John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

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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
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Style

• 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
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Years
  • Old

• 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
  • God
  • May
  • Black

• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Leave

• I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Want
  • Never
  • Rich

• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  

  Vanna White
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Television

• I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Pain
  • Hurts

• If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • True
  • Dream
  • You

• A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Heaven

• 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
  • People
  • Age
  • Violence

• I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Life
  • Long
  • Conclusion

• 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
  • Up
  • Age
  • End

• 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
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Education

• 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
  • Work
  • Different
  • Love

• 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
  • Hand
  • Universe

• The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Food

• There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • People
  • Free

• I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Theatre

• I feel like hair is the number one thing that makes me feel beautiful or not. If I have really bad hair, but my makeup's beautiful and I have a wonderful dress on, I'm still not happy. So if I wake up, and I've got 2 big zits on my face and my hair looks fierce, I feel ok. I have a weird hair obsession.

  

  Amber Stevens
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Generation
  • Land
  • Cleavage

• Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

  

  John Wayne