Merle Haggard Quotes
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.
Quotes to Explore
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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Hauer looks for laws. Good. But he looks for them where he will not find them.
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When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.
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I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kissSo many men stronger than meHave thrown their backs out trying to lift itBut me I'm not a gambleYou can count on me to splitThe love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist.
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
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I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.
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A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
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I make a sincere effort to do some form of exercise every day, except for Sunday. That's church and hang out day.
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Know when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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In Life you don't get what you deserve you get what you negotiate...
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We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.
