Merle Haggard Quotes

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

Merle Haggard

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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
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• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
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  • Down
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• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
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• Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
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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.

  

  Quico Canseco
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• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  

  Yao Ming
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• A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.

  

  Adam McKay
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  • Wife

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
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• When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
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  • Admire

• Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

  

  Zosia Mamet
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• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

  

  Sam Rayburn
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• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
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• Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
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• I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

  

  Bess Myerson
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• I will always eat pizza! Always.

  

  Dylan Penn
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• Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
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  • Want
  • Giving

• When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • True
  • Purpose
  • Communication

• Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Heart
  • Giving

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• The Candy Man can

  

  Leslie Bricusse
  • Candy

• I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Purpose