Merle Haggard Quotes

The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.

Merle Haggard

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• Bottles

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• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
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• I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Game
  • Want
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• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
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• The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

  

  W. Mark Felt
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• In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • She
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• Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion
  • Designer

• It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Genius
  • Independence

• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Right
  • Wait

• You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Hollywood

• I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Long
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• After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Up

• It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

  

  Little Richard
  • Success
  • Education
  • Poverty

• Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Joy
  • Purpose
  • Choosing

• If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Great
  • Done
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• There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Culture
  • Anger

• When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Grows

• The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Enemy
  • Lust

• People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Missing
  • Might

• When you're on a lower-budget film, with one guy who maybe has a camera strapped to him, you're a much bigger part of that pie. You can be a sliver in a big Hollywood movie, but you can be a quarter of that indie movie pie. And I feel like, first of all, there is a real freedom that you feel from that, because it's like, you know what, if this is terrible, nobody's gonna ever see it, so I can be more brave.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Guy

• Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Danger
  • Social
  • Taste

• Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

  

  Ahad Ha'am
  • Force
  • Social
  • Mankind

• The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Social
  • Command
  • Bottles