Merle Haggard Quotes

To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

Merle Haggard

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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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• Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

  

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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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• You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a step back, and watch it get ROCK HARD!

  

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• I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

  

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• Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them the rights - they didn't talk, they were a terrorist, it was over. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard. Okay?

  

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• Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.

  

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• To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Country
  • Singing
  • Painful