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.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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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.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
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I was at the Cross With Mary Magdalene. I received the muse From Ceridwen's cauldron.
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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.
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Naqi suspected that the ability to turn drunkenness on and off like a switch must be one of the most hallowed of diplomatic skills.
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Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
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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.
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White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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Integrity matters. What our fans think matters.
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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
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I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.
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One of the most important tools in critical thinking about numbers is to grant yourself permission to generate wrong answers to mathematical problems you encounter. Deliberately wrong answers!
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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.
