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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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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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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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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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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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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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'
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of a character in 'The Man Who Gave Up Smoking' who is suffering from a hangover ... the noise of the cat stamping about in the passage outside caused him exquisite discomfort.
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Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
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In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.
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Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.
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The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.
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Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
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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.
