Steve Earle Quotes

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

Steve Earle

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• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• I would never walk off any show.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Never
  • Show
  • Walk

• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Father

• Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Mercy

• Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

  

  Clare Short

• Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Friends
  • Mom

• In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • High
  • Pretty

• It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that's perfectly fine, and that's amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I'd wear heels every day, and I'd strut around in a dress, but that's not me.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • God
  • Parents
  • Patience

• Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Rest

• After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• There are a lot of columnists who get out and opine.

  

  David E. Sanger

• If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the latest movies on demand that I usually missed at the theater. I love magazines. My top three: Graydon Carter's 'Vanity Fair', Adam Moss' 'New York magazine' and David Remnick's 'New Yorker.'

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Up

• I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

  

  Frank McCourt

• The Remain campaign... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.

  

  Boris Johnson

• We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue - not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • America
  • War
  • Respect

• You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

  

  Jessamyn West
  • Business
  • Book
  • Beginning

• We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Breath
  • Manchee
  • Ruddy

• I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything.

  

  Francisco Goldman
  • Responsibility
  • Everything
  • Realizing

• When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anything specifically. It's just trying to capture a little piece of your soul - even if it's a really ugly part.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Song

• What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Drug
  • Realizing
  • Opposites