Merle Haggard Quotes
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
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I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.
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I encourage interoffice romance.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.
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More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.
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I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.
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My stepdad always said, "If you're going to believe the good, you're going to believe the bad." I think that's really important.
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A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.
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I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce.
