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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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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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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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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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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 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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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