Merle Travis Quotes
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.
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The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.
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Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
