Steve Earle Quotes
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.
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In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
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Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.
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Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
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Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
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O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts … You are one-half woman and one-half dream.
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Better to be wrong than be boring.
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Now I know what the atom looks like.
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Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof.
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I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do.
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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
