Steve Earle Quotes

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Hope

• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Man
  • Reflection

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Money
  • Help
  • Attention

• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Today
  • Free
  • Choices

• Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Future
  • Success
  • Story

• I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Long
  • Care
  • Perception

• I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Illusions

• Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Reality
  • Stress
  • Touch

• We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Religion
  • Liberalism
  • Hostility

• I was at the Cross With Mary Magdalene. I received the muse From Ceridwen's cauldron.

  

  Taliesin

• The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Important
  • Future
  • Past

• Naqi suspected that the ability to turn drunkenness on and off like a switch must be one of the most hallowed of diplomatic skills.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Different
  • Food

• I remember watching 'EastEnders' as a kid with my mum, and even my dad would be gripped by the odd episode. So to think I would be part of the show was a strange feeling at first.

  

  Ben Hardy
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Dad

• White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.

  

  James A. Forbes
  • Faith

• There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

  

  Bjork
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Walking

• It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

  

  Elle Varner
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Cool

• Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Problems
  • Something
  • Because

• I'm a purist, and I love the sport. I loved the '60s and '70s, when the fans even enjoyed the races where only four cars finished, and they were two laps apart.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Different
  • Heaven

• Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • World
  • True

• What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

  

  Steve Earle
  • World
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  • Morning