Merle Haggard Quotes
I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
Quotes to Explore
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.
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Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.
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You've got to be realistic.
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Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.
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If you're uncomfortable with your financial advisor, it's probably with good reason.
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Even if you can be the world's best at one thing, you'll be the world's worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.
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I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
