Merle Haggard Quotes
I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
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You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
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I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.
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Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.
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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
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As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.
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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
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I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and in mammals through a binocular microscope, using strong reflected light as a source of illumination. Resting muscles observed in this way are usually quite pale, and the microscope reveals only a few capillaries at fairly regular intervals.
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No one's trying to get with jugglers.
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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
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Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.
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In my spare time, I’ve been playing a lot of piano. I’m trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It’s fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.
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I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.
