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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.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
Radio Personality
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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 never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
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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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