Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
JOHN WAYNERepublic. 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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.
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courage is being scared to death – and saddling up anyway” “A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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General MacArthur told me, “You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.”
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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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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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If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’
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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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When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
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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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Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
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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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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.
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A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
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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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