Merle Haggard Quotes
There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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I stood in front of a mountain and was overwhelmed by the beauty and energy; I had goosebumps. I thought, if I could record this feeling, go back home and pour it out again so other people can have that feeling, this I would want to be my work. I knew it was acting - I wanted to be like a messenger or medium.
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What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.
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The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
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There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.
