Steve Earle Quotes
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'
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The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.
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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
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I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.
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Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
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I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.
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He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
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Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.
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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
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Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.
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All instruments sound fantastic in a church.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
