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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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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 love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
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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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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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
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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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