John Wayne ("The Duke") Quotes
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
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I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.
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Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.
