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.
JOHN WAYNEI believe humor nullifies violence.
More John Wayne Quotes
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Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
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Of course I know who you are. You’re my girl. I love you.
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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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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
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When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.
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If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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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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Men forget everything; women remember everything.
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Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
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True 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.
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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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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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I never shot nobody I didnt have to.
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Out here, due process is a bullet.
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