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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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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Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political Copperhead Road is isn't listening very well.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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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'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'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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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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The revolution starts now.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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