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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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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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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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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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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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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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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It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.
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What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?
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To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.
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I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.
