Steve Earle Quotes
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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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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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No one person is an island.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
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Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.
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I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
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Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
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The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
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To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.
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Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.
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I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.
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The revolution starts now.
