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Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

Willie Nelson

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Willie Nelson
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 10
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I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again
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All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
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I think there must be safety in numbers. If you f - up enough times, they forget which one you really did. They start thinking, Well, nobody can be that bad.
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A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military
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In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity... it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong... I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.
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I believe in looseness.
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Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.
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Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend, and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp & marijuana. His book ‘The Last Free Man Standing’ says it all.
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I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
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Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.
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If you want to make marijuana legal, you've got to stay straight long enough to f - vote.
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I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
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Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.
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When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.
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I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
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If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.
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There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
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I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.
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At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song On the Road Again, among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.
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As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
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