Steve Earle Quotes

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

Steve Earle

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• I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Myself

• It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Free
  • Sin
  • Clean

• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Time
  • Age
  • Taken

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
  • Long
  • Man

• I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • God
  • Poetry
  • Eye

• I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Hard
  • Underestimate

• When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Moon
  • Going
  • Doctors

• In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Married
  • Texas
  • August

• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Time
  • War
  • Past

• When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Improve

• Unless he really starts feeling good, in all likelihood I wouldn't think he'd go this week.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Good
  • Feeling

• I couldn't wait to borrow his 'magic pencil' and try my own hand at drawing these comic-strip characters, ... It was a major discovery, and I was floating on air with excitement.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Air

• There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

  

  Siobhan Davies
  • Ideas
  • Audience
  • Acceptance

• Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Audience
  • Matter
  • Stars