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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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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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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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
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If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!
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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
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In my philosophy, the meaning of life derives from the people one has known and loved. I have met my share of evil people and know what they are capable of - I was at the liberation of Dachau - but I have always held that evil is not inherent in men and women. I still believe that within a caring society, only the best people will flourish. That is the spirit that has moved me to photograph.
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If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.
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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
