John Wayne Quotes

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Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

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We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!

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All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

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If I'd known this was all it would take, I'd have put that eyepatch on 40 years ago.

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Courage is being scared to death—and saddling up anyway.

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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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I'm just an ordinary goddamn American and I talk for all the ordinary goddamn Americans, the butchers and bakers and plumbers. I know these people; I know what they think.

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If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

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Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

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I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.

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There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean, ya know. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

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If I had known this, I would've put that patch on thirty-five years earlier.

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