Merle Haggard Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
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When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.
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While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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She wore no make-up, and her small, tense face looked chronically embarrassed, as if it got attached by mistake to the wrong person.
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You get very comfortable doing the open mic circuit, turning up to the same places and playing to 20 people. In that situation, it won't matter if you aren't great on that night because no one will really remember who you are. Then suddenly you are doing rooms to 400 people and you have to up your game.
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It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
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Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.
