Steve Earle Quotes

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Steve Earle

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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.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• I care about writing music and playing my music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Care

• But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Question
  • Nothing
  • India

• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Solitude

• I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!

  

  Carla Hall
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Good
  • Fashion

• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Facts
  • Whole

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Father
  • Couple
  • California

• My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Country
  • Age
  • Promise

• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Life
  • Time
  • Jump

• 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.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Up
  • Good
  • American

• 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.

  

  Marguerite Young

• I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.

  

  James Gray
  • True

• When you're in a hole, stop digging.

  

  Denis Healey
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Dorothy Fields
  • Great
  • Men
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Maren Morris
  • People
  • Guy

• I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Space

• In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Rich

• Smoke machines are the best!

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Best
  • Machines
  • Smoke

• When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

  

  Brian Patten
  • Clothes
  • Journalists
  • Publishers

• Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Hurt
  • Hard Work
  • Hired

• Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

  

  Charles J. Givens
  • Success
  • Effort

• I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Democracy
  • Obvious
  • Contagious