Merle Travis Quotes
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
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I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.
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Sometimes I hate a shoe in seconds.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed sugar and minimize carbs, but I don't feel like I need to go crazy if I want pasta now and then.
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All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.
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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.
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Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.
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Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
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I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.
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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
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Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'
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Man should be ever better than he seems.
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That’s why paradigm shifts are so disruptive and painful: they bring into question the operating assumptions that underlie the existing economic and social models as well as the belief system that accompanies them and the worldview that legitimizes them.
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If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.
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The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.
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The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.
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I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.