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.
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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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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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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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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.
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Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
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I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.
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I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.
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We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
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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.
