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 have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• 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

• I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Society
  • Security

• 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

• What I would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the job. So, I would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If I feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Work
  • Different
  • Job

• 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

• Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.

  

  Ovid

• 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

• You have a different experience as a woman walking through life; you just do.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Life
  • Different
  • Experience

• I loved 'About Schmidt'. I like Alexander Payne's work a lot.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Work

• The essential is to cease being free and to obey, in repentance, a greater rogue than oneself. When we are all guilty, that will be democracy.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Free
  • Democracy
  • Guilty

• In a democracy, if people don't have accurate information, how can they be active citizens? How can they be part of the debate? And if you are facing powerful forces on the right and in Trump administration who want to create an alternative reality that feeds into their objectives for our country, you more than ever need the press to cut through that, and to be as accurate as possible.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Democracy
  • Information
  • Citizens

• You can get together, you can talk as much as you want, but if there's not a decision-making process - that's where democracy really matters.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Decision
  • Democracy
  • Talk

• The flop that hit me was 'Tevar.' It felt like someone knocked the wind out of me. When you do a home production, it always hurts more. I wasn't ready to accept that 'Tevar' didn't do well.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • Home
  • Wind

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

  

  Steve Earle
  • Democracy
  • Obvious
  • Contagious