Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
JOHN WAYNETrue Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.
More John Wayne Quotes
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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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Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!
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I’ve had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women
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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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A man ought to do what he thinks is right
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America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.
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Men forget everything; women remember everything.
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Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
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Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you — either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.
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I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst’s couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.
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In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right – that’s me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I’ve been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.
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You don’t have to fight to be brave. Millions of good, fine, decent folks show more bravery than heavyweight champs just by getting out of bed every morning, going out to do a good day’s work and living the best life they know how against the law of odds.
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I would like to be remembered, well… the Mexicans have a phrase, ‘Feo fuerte y formal’. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.
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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
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