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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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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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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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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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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'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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What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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