Merle Haggard Quotes
When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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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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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
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I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
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The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
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Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.
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I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.
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There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth
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When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.
