Merle Haggard Quotes
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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That stupid fucking kid! That stupid fucking kid! Look what he's done to me!
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It was the most exciting thing to leave secondary school and go to college, to have that freedom to study whatever I wanted.
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Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.
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Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
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You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
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Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.
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Chiropractic is health insurance. Premiums small. Dividends large!
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It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.
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What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.
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Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
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I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.
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I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic
