Merle Haggard Quotes
Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
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Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
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I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
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One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Who knows what will happen in five years' time.
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
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I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.
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The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
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Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
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That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.
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Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
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When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.
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Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
