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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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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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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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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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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'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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