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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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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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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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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Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
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We have a house near East Hampton, and of all the beaches I've been to, I think there is something so beautiful about Long Island beaches. I love them in the fall and winter.
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As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
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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.
