When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
JOHN WAYNEIf everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’
More John Wayne Quotes
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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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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
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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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Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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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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Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .
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A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
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Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.
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I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I’ve been doing okay, haven’t I?
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I believe humor nullifies violence.
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Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.
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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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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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Let’s say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person’s life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I’d just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.
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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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