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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

John Wayne

I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
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Advice Father Insults
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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Country Marine People Person
Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
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Mind Names People
Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.
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Men Running Western Movie
There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you’re living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you’re dead as a beaver hat.
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Decision Hats May
A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
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Creed Jobs Matter Men
Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded…. They shout you down and won’t let you speak if you disagree with them.
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Down Minded Open Speak
General MacArthur told me, “You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.”
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Acting Macarthur Servicemen
I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.
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Fighting Men Real
My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
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Country Love Prayer
Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you’re stupid
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Life Stupid Tough
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
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Courage Day Fear Veterans
I’m an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.
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Clothes Horse Legs Tough
Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .
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Incidents Lied Men
I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up this drawl, the squint and a way of moving meant to suggest that I wasn’t looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not. I practiced in front of a mirror.
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Bottles Mirrors Moving
You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
JOHN WAYNE

Gentleman Man Men

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

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