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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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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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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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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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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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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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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Wherever I find love I will accept it.
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I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
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If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.
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For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.
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It's hard for me to approach a film as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
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Freedom is knowing who you really are.
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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.
