Steve Earle Quotes
I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
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I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.
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You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.
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I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.
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Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.
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Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.
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Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
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I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.'
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.
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We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
