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

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
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• Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

  

  Victor Kiam
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  • Greatest

• 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
  • Humble

• 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
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Secret
  • Files
  • Bureau

• 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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  • Service
  • Competition

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

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • She
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  • Beauty

• 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

• If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Prince
  • Jewels
  • Scarcity

• I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.

  

  Isla Fisher
  • Comedy
  • Idea
  • Director

• Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.

  

  Beau Bokan Blessthefall
  • Believe
  • Band
  • Changed

• The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Social
  • Incredibles
  • Bubbles

• 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