Steve Earle Quotes
You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix.
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Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.
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I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life. I could stand up in front of, it doesn't matter how many people, as a character. But if I had to do it as myself and give a speech, I would be liquid.
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I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.
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Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he wrote? He said that it was for the sake of the existence of Israel that we have to accept the rights of the Palestinians to have their independent state.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
