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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• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

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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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  • Good
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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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  • War
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• You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

  

  Zebulon Pike
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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.

  

  Carl Barks
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• Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.

  

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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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• Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

  

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• In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.

  

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• I have spoken all over the world and I have great respect for Muslims, I have great respect for the African people, I have respect for the other races. Even back home in Lousiana, I'm called a racist, but I have respect for the Black people of my country and I want them to have their own life, too, and I want them to be able to pursue their own destiny and not be controlled, and not be damaged.

  

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• Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

  

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• I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

  

  Isaac Rosenberg
  • Army
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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