Merle Haggard Quotes
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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Good design is good business.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
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I love the '60s - that's my comfort zone as far as dressing goes.
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I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.
