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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

John Wayne

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.
JOHN WAYNE

Down Minded Open Speak
I’ve made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it.
JOHN WAYNE

Guy Made Picture Shots
I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.
JOHN WAYNE

Drink Men never Trust
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 WAYNE

Advice Father Insults
When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
JOHN WAYNE

Bangs Half Looks
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Daughter Embraces Man Mother
If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
JOHN WAYNE

Being Thankful Thankfulness
Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you’re stupid
JOHN WAYNE

Life Stupid Tough
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Bottles Mirrors Moving
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Mean Phrases Strong
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Fighting Men Real
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Mean People War
Out here, due process is a bullet.
JOHN WAYNE

Bullets Guy Process Tough
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Giving Government Promise
Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
JOHN WAYNE

God Sides Sometimes
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 .
JOHN WAYNE

Incidents Lied Men

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