Steve Earle Quotes
I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
Quotes to Explore
-
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
-
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
-
If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
-
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
-
I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
-
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
-
Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
-
When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
-
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
-
If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.
-
I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.
-
Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
-
Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
-
When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
-
There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
-
Love and despair go hand in hand.
-
I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.
-
When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.
-
The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.
-
This was the west and we were westerners, and no bureaucrat in Washington was going to regulate what our companies did in our state. So, we gulped down hot smog and pretended like we enjoyed it because we were too fucking stupid to look out for our own best interests.
-
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
-
Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.
-
If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
-
I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
