Merle Haggard Quotes
There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
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I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.
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You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'
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I'm looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I've heard so many good things about it from my writer friends. I'm looking forward to seeing my buddies and talking to readers who want to know about the way I work.
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I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.
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I have permission to live off campus.” She didn’t say from whom, because it was primarily herself.
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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
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There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
