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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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Money doesn't change who you are; it magnifies who you really are.
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The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.
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Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip of Jules Feiffer. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that.
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Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.
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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.
