When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
JOHN WAYNESometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
More John Wayne Quotes
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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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Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
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The reason there are so many stupid people is because it’s illegal to kill them.
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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 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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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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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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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 believe humor nullifies violence.
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All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
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We brought nothing into this world and it’s certain we can carry nothing out.
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Out here, due process is a bullet.
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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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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.
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