Merle Haggard Quotes
Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.
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I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.
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This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
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I wouldn't say I'm the "nice" judge, but I was certainly reminded a couple of times that this is for a million dollars. There's one thing to just do a good dance, but I had to ask myself, "Is that the million-dollar dance?" There are certain dances that people prefer, and I preferred the intelligent and smart choreography.
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Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
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This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.
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Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.
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If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.
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I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
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I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
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Liberty does not mean being given state sanction to force your own ideas—religious or otherwise—on other people. It does not mean being given a free pass from laws you don't like.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.
