Steve Earle Quotes

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

Steve Earle

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• While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Decisions

• The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Travel
  • Economy
  • Tourism

• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Process
  • Saying

• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Bad
  • About

• I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Support
  • Friend
  • Organization

• I would say our sound is soul pop.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Soul
  • Sound
  • Say

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Principles
  • Him
  • Carry

• My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Best
  • Study
  • Blood

• I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • May
  • Day

• Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Heart
  • Sick
  • Temptation

• Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Religion
  • Search

• Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Important
  • Success
  • Single

• I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Books
  • Numbers

• I have written two books that have to do with fairy godmothers: 'The Magic Touch' and 'Wishing on a Star.'

  

  Jody Lynn Nye
  • Star
  • Magic

• Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman came for to deny rumors that she had an affair with Democratic front-runner John Kerry. The woman added, 'I would never cheat on Bill Clinton.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • She
  • Ugly
  • Presidential

• I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Real

• 'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Believe
  • Audience
  • Able