"Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived."
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"I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either."
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"I don't have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I'm not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride in my work, even to the point of being the first one on the set in the morning. I'm a professional."
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"I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot."
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"Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it."
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"Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness."
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"You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man."
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"A long time ago, I made me a rule. I let people do what they want to do."
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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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"Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow."
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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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"Men forget everything; women remember everything."
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"A man's got to do what a man's got to do."
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"Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door."
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"The fire is not discriminating. It burns anything in its path for whatever reason."
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"If a man says, "I'll call you," and he doesn't, he didn't forget. . . . he didn't lose your number. . . . he didn't die. He just didn't want to call you."
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"In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right - that's me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I've been selling the hell out of that ever since I started."
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"Republic. I like the sound of the word."
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"That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened."
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"America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living."
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