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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Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
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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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Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
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We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.
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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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Men always want to look like themselves, just a little bit better.
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Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.
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The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.
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I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
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You don't have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it's on there forever, and the things you say when you're 15 are not necessarily what you'd say when you're 25 or 35.
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If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.
