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(On John Wayne`s 1971 interview with Playboy magazine) That doesn`t need a reply, it`s self-evident. You can`t even get mad at it; it`s so insane that there`s just nothing to say about it. He would be, according to his point of view, someone not disposed to returning any of the colonial possessions in Africa or Asia to their rightful owners. He would be sharing a perspective with B.J. Vorster if he were in South Africa. He would be on the side of Ian Smith. He would have shot down Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), called him a rabble rouser. The only freedom fighters he would recognize would be those who were fighting Communists; if they were fighting to get out from under colonial rule, he`d call them terrorists. The Indians today he`d call agitators, terrorists, who knows? If John Wayne ran for President, he would get a great following ... I think he`s been enormously instrumental in perpetuating this view of the Indian as a savage, ferocious, destructive force. He`s made us believe things about the Indian that were never true and perpetuated the myth about how wonderful the frontiersmen were and how decent and honorable we all were.

- Marlon Brando

I made a remark a long time ago. I said I was very pleased that television was now showing murder stories, because it`s bringing murder back into its rightful setting - in the home.

- Alfred Hitchcock

I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn`t work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right.

- Derek Luke

This is a plain and brazen violation of copyright law. It`s not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the rightful owners of these copyrights, to decide whether and how their works will be copied.

- Nick Taylor

Hopefully, Pete will be reinstated by Baseball and he will have his rightful place in baseball history, a plaque in the Hall of Fame.

- Steve Carlton

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

This is truly the definitive collection for these stars. And all of this footage comes from the original rightful owner of the 35mm content, VCX.

- David Sutton

You can check under maiden names, prior names, or names of people in your family that may be deceased as you might be a rightful heir,

- Steve Carter

Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.

- Richard Morris

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.

- Jane Grey

We now hope that those responsible for removing Gladys` body will return her so she can lie once again in her rightful resting place.

- Anthony Ball

Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage

- C.S. Lewis

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

- Abraham Lincoln

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

- Thomas Jefferson