Steve Earle Quotes
I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean...
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Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.
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The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.
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If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.
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I just try to be as versatile as life is and try and express that in the fight.
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Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.
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It Strayhorn's Compositions made us all think a little differently about what we were doing.
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My backstory is so tedious. I hope the interviews are turning a corner now.
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Here's the only thing I know for sure: Chopped pineapple is incredible on hot dogs. Honest to God, I love pineapple on everything- I would probably even eat it off a cadaver's hand- but toss it with a little chopped red onion and put it on a hot dog, and it's bliss. There's not a lot you can count on in this world, but pineapple? It's solid.
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I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.
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Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.
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It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.
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To put it in layman's terms, crazy is crazy. And crazy will find a way to do something crazy. Racist is racist. And racist people will find a way to project their racism onto the world.
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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
