Steve Earle Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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The best thing women in tech can do is to invest in other women.
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The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
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It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.
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I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.
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America has a long history of pride in the military uniform, and the Army has a 362-page directive on proper uniform wear. Included are guidelines that accommodate freedom of religion by outlining what religious attire or jewelry can be worn with the uniform.
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If you want a friend, buy a dog.
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Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.
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There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice.
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Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body.
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A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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I don't believe in brands.
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I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.
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I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.
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You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.
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The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
