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.

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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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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.
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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.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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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.
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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.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
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If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.
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The end-Permian extinction also seems to have been triggered by a change in the climate. But in this case, the change went in the opposite direction. Right at the time of extinction, 252 million years ago, there was a massive release of carbon into the air—so massive that geologists have a hard time even imagining where all the carbon could have come from. Temperatures soared—the seas warmed by as much as eighteen degrees—and the chemistry of the oceans went haywire, as if in an out-of-control aquarium. The water became acidified, and the amount of dissolved oxygen dropped so low that many organisms probably, in effect, suffocated.
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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.