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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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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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 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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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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Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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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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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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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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