John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I love working with women.
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My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live in a 100-year-old house, and I work in an apartment above the carriage house.
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I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in the UK had to do two years "National Service" in one of the armed forces. I chose the Royal Air Force over the Army and Navy. My father's reputation went before me and therefore the RAF encouraged me to box. There is much rivalry in sporting competitions between the Army, Navy and RAF. Competing has great privileges. I didn't need too much encouragement with all these perks being offered, so I started training with a vengeance.
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
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In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.
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I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
