Steve Earle Quotes
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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Since becoming a pop star, I've experimented a lot more. I've gotten more creative with what I wear. My stylist is a bit more adventurous than I would normally be, but it's really worked, and the colours really work together. I think everyone should be a bit more confident: if it's a summer's day, wear some bright colours.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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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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I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'
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The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics.
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I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.
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This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.
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History is the memory of a nation
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My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
