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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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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This is senior citizen profiling and I will not put up with it one more minute.
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For all that they love to make kings, John’s folk seem to have little interest in the actual business of ruling anything. They like to become, they do not like to be.
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I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
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People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it's not like that.
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I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.
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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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Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.
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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.
