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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
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Record Producer
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I'm not a Democrat I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
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I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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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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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
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I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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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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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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