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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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 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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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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I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
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My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.
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Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.
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Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.
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The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.
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I think if people have more of an understanding of what I'm doing, then they'll appreciate it and get into it more.
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Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
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Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
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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.
