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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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