Steve Earle Quotes
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
Quotes to Explore
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.
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I enjoy fashion and taking the effort to present myself well, and I'm glad that a lot of people refer to me as a 'Hijabster'. I'm not the greatest fan of the term, but I think girls everywhere should be confident in their own skin and be inspired to look and feel good inside and out.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough.
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My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
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I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
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When you're in a hole, stop digging.
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I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.
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There are so many times I turn on the radio, and I hear a guy, and I have no idea who it is because it sounds like four other people.
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Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
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[Fall of the Berlin Wall] is a reminder that the commitment of the United States, to Europe is enduring and it's rooted in the values we share; our commitment to democracy, our commitment to rule of law, our commitment to the dignity of all people in our own countries and around the world.
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In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.
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Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. ... What makes me different from the 'nazis' are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy.
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'I'm not responsible for my child and who she's become, but I am responsible to her, and she is a wonderful person. I love her. I don't know if you need to know anything else, but that's all I need to know.' -Carol
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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
