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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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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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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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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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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Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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I don't see anything wrong with staying young looking as long as you can.
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.
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When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
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As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.
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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.
