Merle Haggard Quotes
To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.
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You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.
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You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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I've always wanted to go to college - I don't know what college - just to explore the world. I want to learn languages - many, multiple languages. And I love to help people, so I think it would be fun to do some nonprofit work.
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History teaches, but it has no pupils.
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The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy.
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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
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Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.
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My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.
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The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
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We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality.
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I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.
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To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
