Steve Earle Quotes
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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I think I'm a million different faces.
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The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
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Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
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'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'
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I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
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You change your life by changing your heart.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
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First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.
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I love you. I'll never leave you and I swear to you sweetheart that you will never be alone.
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The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.
