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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 than there's available... in America right now."

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"In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now."

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."

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"It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before."

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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

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"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

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"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."

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"The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability."

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"I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs."
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"When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer."
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"95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want."
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"It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick."
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