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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
Guitarist
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Radio Personality
Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
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My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
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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've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
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