Steve Earle Quotes

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

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• In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

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• I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

  

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• But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

  

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• I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

  

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• Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

  

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• I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

  

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• They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

  

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• If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.

  

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• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

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• I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.

  

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• Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.

  

  Alice Greczyn
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• The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

  

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• People like me, DJs and producers, have a bigger say and a bigger voice than we've ever had before.

  

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• We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

  

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• When you turn 60, the key is to not stop moving. Once you start to stop moving, you rust. You got to just keep going.

  

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• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  

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• You're a song written by the hands of God.

  

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• I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.

  

  Eleanor Catton
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• I'm at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
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• The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
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• Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Water
  • Retarded
  • Retard