John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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Dancing is a beautiful thing.
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My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
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Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead:-The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.
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There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You all think alike. You agree. People are arguing that the banking crisis was because too many of the relevant bodies were thinkalikes, and that if they'd had more diversity, maybe it wouldn't have happened.
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I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.
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If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere.
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Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.
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I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, three hours. I'm a night owl. I'm usually in the studio at night working, and then I get home, I'm on my phone looking at Instagram pictures and buying stuff.
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Fluency is smooth, rapid, effortless use of language.
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All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
