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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My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.
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I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.
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To bring the fans into the world of being like part of the crew through things like cell phone cases, making them feel like they are on tour with their favorite band is a cool thing.
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The outlook for the economy, as always, is highly uncertain.
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Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
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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.
