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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I've had a few ditty hits.
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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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I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.
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I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.
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To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.
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Most seem to have made an unconscious decision that it is better to keep visiting doctors and treating ailments that don’t heal than to do the painful work of facing the demons of the past.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
