John Wayne Quotes

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• Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
• There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it…
• Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
• It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.
• 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…
• I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that . . . but not…
• True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
• Republic . . . it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose.
• We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.
• Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.
• My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.
• You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
• A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
• 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…
• Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid
• Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either…
• Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.
• This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.
• Out here a man settles his own problems.
• Out here, due process is a bullet.

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