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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.
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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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