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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.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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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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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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