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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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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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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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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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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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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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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In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.
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I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.
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Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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I was a child of the women's movement. Everything I had learned was from my mother and my grandmother, who both had a very pioneering spirit. They had to, because they had to change flat tires and paint the house - because, you know, the men didn't come home from the war or whatever else, so women had to do these things.
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There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.
