Steve Earle Quotes
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.
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Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.
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The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.
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God made the integers, man made the rest.
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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.
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The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that you resent, that you look down on. That's why the Republicans can't lead black people. And that's why Democrats increasingly can't lead these straight, white, male demons that we hate so much.
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The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.
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How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
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Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
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I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.
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I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.
