Merle Haggard Quotes
My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.
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We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.
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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
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It's a morality film, and it poses the question 'What would you do?' I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
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My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
