Wayne Quotes

• Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne

  John Wayne

  Corruption, Masquerade, Ambiguity

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• My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Dad, Father, Daddy

  Twitter post from Jul 30, 2011

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• Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.

  Drake

  Friendship, Relationship, Success

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• I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally pray. I would say 'God, give me his work ethic'.

  Nicki Minaj

  People, Giving, Work Ethic

  "Nicki Minaj Uses Others' Success As 'Fuel To Go Hard'" by Hillary Crosley, www.mtv.com. December 21, 2010.

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• If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

  Tupac Shakur

  Hero, Play, White

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• I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.

  Jay-Z

  Thinking

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• Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Blessed, Fire

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• I feel that Wilton Felder and Wayne Henderson have involved themselves so deeply into being Jehovah's Witnesses that Stix Hooper and I have decided we simply cannot tiptoe around them. Now at 53 years old, I am looking forward to the rest of my life.

  Joe Sample

  Years, Jehovah, Tiptoes

  Interview with Pete Fogel, steelydanreader.com. October 1992.

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• I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

  Ishmael Reed

  White, Feminist, Racist

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men].

  Ishmael Reed

  Dream, Father, Past

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.

  Herbie Hancock

  Years, Together, Albums

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• When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

  Dennis Farina

  Kids, Stories, Bogart

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• Well, Japanese fans braced me since 1991 that was my first time I have been to Japan. So I know that Japanese fans has supported me over the years. So it just a lot of love and Wayne Wonder will release more music, more music and more music!

  Wayne Wonder

  Japan, Years, Fans

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• I think there are a lot of crazy guys that I've played with in the past. Wayne VanDorp, when I played in Chicago. He wasn't a big name, but my God was he nuts.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Crazy, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that.

  Charli XCX

  Rap, Wish, Laid Back

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I meditate. Like probably a lot of people, my mind was opened almost ten years ago with The Secret. From there, I devoured anything Wayne Dyer ever wrote. I listen to him constantly in my car. And Eckhart Tolle. And Paramahansa Yogananda. All this has helped me through the ups and downs of acting and kept me on my path.

  Graham Shiels

  Years, Car, People

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• Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base.

  David Maraniss

  Country, Rights, Cities

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• I love hip-hop. I'm big into Jay-Z, Kanye, Little Wayne. Those are everyone's favorites, I know. I just like the fact that when they get on track and talk about whatever they're talking about, they have supreme confidence. That's pretty much what you need to have on the field. I like the way they approach their music, they feel like no one can touch them.

  Nate Burleson

  Talking, Track, Hip Hop

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• When I got a little older I was obsessed Lil Wayne. But then it was just as many British rappers - Dizzee Rascal I would always listen to.

  Tinie Tempah

  Rapper, Littles, Obsessed

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want this to sound like a taxicab driver, or a taxi in New York," or "I want this to sound like a telephone ringing." She would speak to musicians like that, and we really tuned into what she would want our music to be.

  Don Alias

  New York, Elements, Want

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• There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Beyoncé, Lil Wayne.

  Manika

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Musician

  "Manika Q&A". Kidzworld Interview, www.kidzworld.com.

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• What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent...” Waxillium glanced at him. "That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Guy, Looks, Faces

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• I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is." I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically.

  Lil Wayne

  Writing, Different, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  Karl Marlantes

  Military, Kids, Thinking

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• I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.

  Nathalie Handal

  Country, Children, Writing

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