Merle Haggard Quotes
My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.
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It was amazing how quickly the silence fell on the crowd. It went from being so loud that you could barely hear the guys 20 feet away on the on-deck circle, to hearing my own footsteps loud and clear as I rounded the bases…that's never happened to me before.
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Well, what does 'good' mean anyway...? As Wittgenstein suggested, 'good,' like 'game,' has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: 'meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation.'
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Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.
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There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.
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My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
