Steve Earle Quotes
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
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You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.
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Social media is not the same in 2013 as it was in 2003 - or even 2008 or 2011. You didn't carry around AOL chat in your pocket or look at it when you were in class.
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There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.
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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring 'Peace on earth, among men Good Will.'
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on Arnold Schwarzenegger That motherfucker be ORANGE. ...I am not against people of color, but that is a fucked-up color. I think that him and Donatella Versace, they gonna start a whole new race of Oompa-Loompa.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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It's amazing how much people talk about colonics here. That's not a thing anywhere else in the country. But I totally did a juice cleanse, I did a colonic - I'm getting into L.A. living!
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I think most people don't understand: I have nothing to do with that. I just open my mouth, and it comes out that way.
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I think it's so important that, if I'm writing about the real world, I stay true to it. I think that kids do compartmentalize, and they're hopefully able to see it from a safe place of their own lives and, through that, learn something about empathy.
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I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'
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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
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You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.
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It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.
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The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
