Merle Haggard Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.
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I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
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I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.
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Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivete. …That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad I was not smart.
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Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
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Don't look back!
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Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.
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I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another...
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For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
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The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.
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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
