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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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 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 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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The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy.
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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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A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.
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It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
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Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.
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I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with me.
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I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.
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My life was ripped off!
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I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.
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I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal.
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Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.
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So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.
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To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
