Merle Haggard Quotes
My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
-
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
-
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.
-
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.
-
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
-
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.
-
Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
-
There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
-
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
-
A true champion can adapt to anything.
-
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.
-
Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
-
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.
-
I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
-
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
-
Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.
-
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.
-
I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
-
I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.
-
My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
