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.
JOHN WAYNEAmerica is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.
More John Wayne Quotes
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Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
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I don’t have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I’m not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride in my work, even to the point of being the first one on the set in the morning. I’m a professional.
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True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
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Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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Most men hate to shop. That’s why the men’s department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
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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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A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
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Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn’t always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.
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I don’t want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.
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Men forget everything; women remember everything.
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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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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Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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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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