Horse Operas and the Horses They Rode

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Horse Operas and the horses they rode in on

An oil man is allowed to deplete twenty-seven percent annually as the oil is used up. An industrialist can depreciate his equipment as it ages. Now all I have to sell is me—this body of mine. If it’s maimed or broken, I can’t work. And it ages just as certainly as machine tools. But do they let me depreciate it? Heck, no. – Gary Cooper

I don’t know how much the Western film means to Europe; but to this country it means the very essence of national life. – William S. Hart

I’m going to stand up for America until somebody shoots me. – Roy Rogers

When you’re young and you fall off a horse you may break something. When you’re my age and you fall off, you splatter. – Roy Rogers

I told Dale, “When I go, just skin me and put me on top of Trigger.” - Roy Rogers

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