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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
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Peace Activist
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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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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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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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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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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.
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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 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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What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
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I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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