Merle Haggard Quotes
The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
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An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
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Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!
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The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
