Steve Earle Quotes

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

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• I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.

  

  Verite
  • Live
  • Black
  • Color

• You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

  

  Ice T
  • Kind
  • Hip Hop
  • DJ

• When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • You
  • Competition
  • Management

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Than

• I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Writing
  • Nature

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Health

• You can try to plan your career, but not marriage.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Career
  • Marriage

• I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

  

  Linford Christie

• I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody's raised Christian, but at this point, I'm 41 years old, and I've been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Atheist

• 'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Money
  • Spiritual
  • Military

• io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Time
  • Famous

• I want to do something that I'm proud of and that I can look back on with pride of accomplishment.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Proud
  • Pride
  • Accomplishment

• You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

  

  Preston Sturges

• In Mumbai, I found, people practiced a showy, demonstrative kind of love, one unafraid of affection or emotion.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • People

• It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

  

  Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
  • Men
  • Heart
  • War

• The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Mean
  • Healthy

• I have learned to accept it, even ask for it, this 'more than I can handle.' Because in these times, God shows Himself victorious. He reminds me that all of this life requires more of Him and less of me. God does give us more than we can handle. Not maliciously, but intentionally, in love, that His glory may be displayed, that we may have no doubt of who is in control, that people may see His grace and faithfulness shining through our lives.

  

  Katie Davis
  • God
  • Learned
  • Grace

• I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  

  Walter Inglis Anderson
  • Attitude
  • Happens
  • Responsible

• I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Term
  • Obstacles