Steve Earle Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.

  

  America Ferrera
  • American
  • Culture
  • Proud

• I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.

  

  David Horsey
  • Time
  • Business
  • Simple

• Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Community

• I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Stories

• Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Wisdom
  • Danger
  • Enemies

• I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

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

  

  Steve Earle
  • Democracy
  • Obvious
  • Contagious