Steve Earle Quotes
He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.
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As young people, you want to see people who in some way look like you to some degree, because it makes it a little easier for you to aspire to take on the qualities of those people.
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How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
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I've tried to choose roles where women are not just reacting or waiting for something to happen.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
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He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
