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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
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I looked like Brigitte Bardot, and I was Stravinsky's goddaughter.
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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
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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.
