John Wayne: Politics
I do not want the government to take away my human dignity and insure me anything more than a normal security. I don`t want handouts.
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John Wayne: Politics
I don`t think a fella should be able to sit on his backside and receive welfare. I`d like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
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John Wayne: Poetry
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the Gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the mornings hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight,
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die.
(Recited at his funeral)
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John Wayne: Miscellaneous
I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view...
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John Wayne: Miscellaneous
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
(The Shootist, 1979)
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John Wayne: Miscellaneous
I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.
(Playboy interview, May 1971)
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John Wayne: Miscellaneous
If I had known this, I would've put that patch on thirty-five years earlier.
(Academy Awards speech for Best Actor in True Grit, 1969)
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