Merle Haggard Quotes
We are under government's control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I'm easily entertained.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
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Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
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I think it's frightening for all of us to contemplate that there's more to the universe than just us, in whatever form it takes, that there are higher forces at work, and to me, that's always a scary notion.
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Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? Perhaps not - so if we allow the word to stand as an absolute, you, or you, or perhaps you, may be appalled at omissions or inclusions or, never having read me before, may even be impelled to cry out, ‘Good heavens, are those his best?’
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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
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We are under government's control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.
