Merle Haggard Quotes
Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
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The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.
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We are now living in an age of literary exhaustion; we get used to the bleak landscape. Cyril Connolly said that the writer's business is to produce masterpieces; but what masterpieces have been produced in the past fifty years?
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But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with livingCause it's the ones with the sorest throats Laura,who have done the most singing.
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There will be many who will eagerly and with great care and solicitude follow up a thing, which, if they only knew its malignity, would always terrify them. Of those men, who, the older they grow, the more avaricious they become, whereas, having but little time to stay, they should become more liberal.
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I thought I'd become an actress, but then I realized I eat too much.
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There's nothing better than that feeling of new chemistry when you're so into someone, and you could care less about what anyone else thinks... and there's butterflies! It's a real feeling that people experience.
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Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.
