Duke John Wayne Quotes

#1. The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Bob Dylan

#2. Memories hold you back; their weight crushes your spirit.

Jorge Enrique Ponce

#3. I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John ... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

John Wayne

#4. Seattle, I get a call from Ben.

Gayle Forman

#5. The guy you see on the screen isn't really me. I'm Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I'm one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him.

John Wayne

#6. The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Elie Wiesel

#7. Every condition exists," Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, "simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum." Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Matthew Desmond

#8. Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

Suzanne Collins

#9. You, Cole. I like you.

Autumn Doughton

#10. Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

Pauli Murray