Steve Earle Quotes

I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

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• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Interesting
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Always

• I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Myself
  • See
  • Celebrity

• I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Faith

• I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Stop

• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
  • Environmental

• Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Need

• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Children
  • Movie
  • motivation

• My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • American
  • Fun

• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would hear bachata, on another corner some salsa, and of course there was hip-hop and R&B all over the place. So for me, it is very organic to have these combinations.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up
  • Growing

• I didn't get acne until after college, and I was very concerned, not only because I didn't have the discipline to not pick at my face but then that would lead to scarring and more acne - it's a vicious cycle that can be broken!

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • College
  • Broken
  • Discipline

• The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Great

• I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Music
  • American
  • Hero

• I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • School

• Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?

  

  Charlie Parker
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

  

  Mary Stewart
  • Blue
  • Stress

• Dancing - however you do it, even if it's in your living room - is a great workout.

  

  Ciara
  • Great
  • Workout

• What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Imagination
  • Obstacles
  • Build

• Please you can never compare to me, all these b****es is scared of me. I am who they couldn't even dare to be.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Scared
  • Please
  • Compare

• I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Decision

• The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Live
  • May
  • Knowledge

• I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Trying
  • Feelings
  • Sorry