Steve Earle Quotes
My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
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If your business is really easy to do, don't gloat. You might be out of a job soon.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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In my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me different from her, and guilty about what I got. Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.
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... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.
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I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
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My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.
