Merle Haggard Quotes
Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
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You have to do what is real and what is right and what is good and what you believe in. It doesn't mean it's always going to work. It doesn't. But when it does, it is truthful and forever.
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We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.
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I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
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I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.
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Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!
