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

• 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

• 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

• When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Parents
  • Desire
  • Understanding

• Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

  

  Jim Sensenbrenner
  • Baseball

• I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o

• I've been dying to play.

  

  Johnny Kelly Black Label Society
  • Dying

• Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Free
  • Play
  • Ideas

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

  

  Steve Earle
  • Democracy
  • Obvious
  • Contagious