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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The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.
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'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.
