Merle Haggard Quotes
The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I'm not a fan of the cowboys.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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Somewhere other than the nightShe needs to hear I love you.Somewhere other than the nightShe needs to know you care.She wants to know she's needed,She needs to be held tightSomewhere other than the night.
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.
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Trust is built with consistency.
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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
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Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don't think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology that now defines the security of our world.
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I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.
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Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
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Growing up with my father's legacy, we never felt that we had to do anything, but we were always raised to think: What could be better than to explore the wonders of the world and share that with people? To try and make the world a better place. And I guess it stuck.
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Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.
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Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
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Find optimism in the inevitable.
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The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I'm not a fan of the cowboys.
