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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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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'The gods are on the side of the stronger,' according to Tacitus. The prophets proclaimed that the heart of God is on the side of the weaker. God's special concern is not for the mighty and the successful, but for the lowly and the downtrodden, for the stranger and the poor, for the widow and the orphan.
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To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.
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I have and will continue to vigorously pursue opportunities in all mediums.
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We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.
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The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.
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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.
