"When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs' and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and 'tough it out'."
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"Out here, due process is a bullet."
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"I never trust a man that doesn't drink."
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"Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down."
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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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"Get off your horse and drink your milk."
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"A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him."
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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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"Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!"
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"Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne"
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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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"We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out."
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"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."
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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 don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."
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"I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to the point of responsibility. I don`t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people."
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"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."
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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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"If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped."
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"Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die."
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