Merle Haggard Quotes
Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.
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I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
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Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land Will die a slave and an orphan.
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Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.
