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Merle Haggard

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MERLE HAGGARD I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard.
TYLER FARR I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a...
JASON MCCOY I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Rober...
JOHNNY VAN ZANT I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a ki...
TOM BROKAW I hung out with Merle Haggard on his bus, which sort of freaks me out. It was him and his wife. We p...
DIERKS BENTLEY It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a h...
TRISHA YEARWOOD I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
TOBA BETA I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with...
TANYA TUCKER I had Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard on my show long before the general public caught up to them, ....
GLEN CAMPBELL And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
WARREN ZEVON When you breath freedom you think of prison; when you breath-in prison you think of freedom !
EPHDAN Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I...
LAURA BELL BUNDY I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and other...
IRIS DEMENT Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.
STURGILL SIMPSON My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I...
KATHA POLLITT I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long tim...
CRAIG FERGUSON When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to rad...
WOLFMAN JACK I was 23 when I came to Bellingham in 1960 - from Mars, they must have thought. I've always had a ve...
ROBERT FULGHUM The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to underst...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the Fir...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right ...
BRAD THOR I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. ...
DANIEL BOULUD All things under heaven are now in God's supervision for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen!
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.
KIRK CAMERON It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant...
DAVID SIMON But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in thi...
CHARLES W. COLSON If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomina...
DAVID ALLAN COE My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
TASLIMA NASRIN He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years un...
HAROLD ICKES Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My...
JAKE OWEN Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and t...
AL JARREAU theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body
KEN M There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the soc...
JASON PRIESTLEY There was a break at the prison yesterday. An ex-fortune teller, described as being short with dark ...
UNKNOWN I felt as strong when I came out of the game as I did when I went in.
CURT SCHILLING It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptabl...
CARLY SIMON Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
NAVEEN ANDREWS I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was...
CHELSEA MANNING There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
SAM WALTON I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and M...
BRAD PAISLEY I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
T. BOONE PICKENS I believe in me more than anything in this world.
WILMA RUDOLPH I have more influence now than when I had the power.
GOUGH WHITLAM I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.
KAI RYSSDAL Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companion...
GEORGE CANNING As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my ...
NELSON MANDELA It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now und...
SALMAN RUSHDIE But it's actually him that's shining . . . I used think of him as an ex-cricketer, and had no sense ...
CRAIG HUTCHISON I'm working more now than when I played football. It feels right.
JERRY RICE I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta...
JEWEL I appeal to him to just come out voluntarily in terms of his status as an ex-senator and a colonel o...
FIDEL RAMOS I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice...
ZAINAB SALBI I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
ROSE WILDER LANE When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gott...
ALAN ALDA In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to...
MARIO J. MOLINA He is our leader right now, undoubtedly. He wanted it more than any person out there. If I had 20 ki...
COREY LESSARD As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations...
RUPERT MURDOCH I came in tight and he tried to duck underneath, and I came right up under his chest. He fell back, ...
LANCE BRIGGS When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
ODEYA RUSH Farragut's first visitor was his wife. He was raking leaves in yard Y when the PA said that 734-508-...
JOHN CHEEVER You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in l...
ANN BEATTIE I think I'm in shock and awe more than anybody else right now.
JUSTIN GATLIN I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a...
BELL HOOKS It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—...
THICH NHAT HANH It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u...
JACK VANCE Either they go or I go, ... If I'm acquitted, they go, because they know they'll never convict me. I...
JACK KEVORKIAN I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM I think more dissidents will be sentenced to prison in 2000 than last year.
FRANK LU There is measurably more money around now than when I first came to Weymouth seven years ago,
MICHAEL CLOUGH I'm more worried now than I was before I came here,
MARY ROBINSON The odds of death go up dramatically among babies who use adult beds. The numbers are gigantic, much...
JAMES KEMP I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open societ...
GEORGE SOROS I think we're more methodical right now. We're still figuring this thing out. We're only four games ...
CHARLIE WHITEHURST He is in high spirits. Obviously he sounded a lot more optimistic than when I saw him in prison a ye...
DAN MCTEAGUE I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, id...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a co...
WILBUR SMITH I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on earl...
MICHAEL BADNARIK When I first came out I wanted to play more than I did. I wasn't used to it at all.
JUSTIN BOCOT When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Oly...
MUHAMMAD ALI As an immigrant in America, I learned one of two things that I had to apply to make me move up: sile...
RAYMOND OBENG My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came ou...
HASIL ADKINS I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.
SOFIA VERGARA I had all that under my belt as an influence. The more I looked back, the more I realized I'm a luck...
JACK CASADY When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Pro football wasn't as popular as it is now. When I came out of college, I had no idea of playing pr...
DICK HOAK He came in and we felt did an outstanding job last year. He got some good experience and has a natio...
IAN MCINTYRE The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and disc...
JIM DEMINT When I came out of the apartment Steve was, um -- I had him in a chair. As soon as I opened the door...
JOYCE HOLLIMAN I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, n...
DAN ROSENSWEIG We started out sluggish. But they are just cool. They had it under control. I think I worried more t...
DAVID FUHRER I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we co...
PETRA NEMCOVA Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning ...
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MERLE HAGGARD We're going back to remember the forgotten ones,
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MERLE HAGGARD He was an asshole, so I hit him.
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MERLE HAGGARD In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision th...
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MERLE HAGGARD The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
MERLE SHAIN Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that w...
MERLE SHAN One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
MERLE SHAIN It's the men behind who make the man ahead.
MERLE CROWELL One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
MERLE SHAIN Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of ...
MERLE KESSLER I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my...
MERLE DANDRIDGE My father and brothers were coal miners.
MERLE TRAVIS He wouldn't be seen as a Dukakis or a Kennedy, but it doesn't go that far. They've never heard of hi...
MERLE BLACK So,' he said. 'What do you think of it?'
She twisted towards the fire and watched the flames be...
CLAIRE MERLE I'm going to get out of here,' she said.
'That's the spirit.' Tamsin sighed, letting go of her ...
CLAIRE MERLE How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are?
CLAIRE MERLE For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't sta...
MERLE OLBERDING It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.
MERLE CROWELL Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that w...
MERLE SHAIN She froze because she was not able to believe what happened.
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MERLE OLBERDING I overheard a young man once saying to his wife, "I can't control you. That's the problem and it's b...
MERLE SHAIN A lot of (residents) have never been out of the state. All they know is working on a farm.
MERLE DERSCHEID The first half was picturesque. We couldn't have drawn it up any better. We were getting the ball in...
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DANIELLE MERLE People told us stories of allergies or divorce.
DANIELLE MERLE Who ask
don't get
who don't ask
don't want
who don't want
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MERLE OLBERDING [We reached] the high end of our target margin range of 3.5 to 4 percent reinforces the fact that we...
MERLE GILMORE We need to involve everybody. We will need to use all of our resources.
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TED HAGGARD It's not political -- it's authentically spiritual renewal.
TED HAGGARD Certainly I don't condone his comments,
TED HAGGARD Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed...
H. RIDER HAGGARD Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
H. RIDER HAGGARD Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...
H. RIDER HAGGARD We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...
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H. RIDER HAGGARD ...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.
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the wate...
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H. RIDER HAGGARD Surely,' I said, 'you don't think that you are going to die because you dreamed you saw your old fat...
H. RIDER HAGGARD And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful att...
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H. RIDER HAGGARD And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love...
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