Merle Haggard Quotes
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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For me, money is about respect, and that is really important to me.
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It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
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Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
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I swear there are things you can do to work on problem areas without having to think about plastic surgery.
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It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.
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If my hands get cold, I'll go inside to warm them up and basically never come back out. I'm a little wimp.
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Amongst Indian celebrities, Shah Rukh is a great one to interview. He's a brilliant T.V. anchor, a people person, and enjoys talking.
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I would rather eat broken glass and drink iodine than do the dishes.
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When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
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I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.
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When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.
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I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.
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If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.
