Merle Haggard Quotes

I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are necessary, especially in prison. You can threaten people for just so long, but they can flip you off and do what they want to; but not if they have to die. I hate it, though, the thought of the death penalty is terrible, but it's completely necessary.

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• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • May
  • Today
  • Struggle

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Know
  • Cancer
  • Lung

• I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Gold

• I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Been
  • Skin

• Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Job
  • American
  • Growing

• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Character
  • Hurt
  • Villain

• At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Day

• I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Bible

• Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Wrong
  • Very
  • Rare

• Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Process
  • Through

• You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Country
  • Help

• I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Sleep
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

  

  David Ignatius

• I like hair each and every way. I like to give scalp massages - to pull and tug on it. But my favorite style is long, real hair in a dusty blonde-brown color.

  

  Trey Songz
  • Long
  • Real
  • Style

• Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • People
  • Free

• Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Life
  • Sometimes

• There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.

  

  James Redfield
  • Christian
  • Legend

• I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are necessary, especially in prison. You can threaten people for just so long, but they can flip you off and do what they want to; but not if they have to die. I hate it, though, the thought of the death penalty is terrible, but it's completely necessary.

  

  Merle Haggard
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