Merle Haggard Quotes
The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
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Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.
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There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
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If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.
