Steve Earle Quotes
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.
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The problem a lot of writers have is that they really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.
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I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.
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I haven't seen 'The Exorcist,' but I've seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don't actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don't know what it is, but even though it's quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I've ever seen in my life.
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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
