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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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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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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Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.
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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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In that year 1865 John Muir offered to buy from his brother … a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.
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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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But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
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People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.
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This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private. Always have an ace in the hole.
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As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.
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All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
